Memorial-chief Ojub Titijew is made because of alleged illegal drug possession in Grozny, the process. A series of witnesses are on his side. Observers assume that the process is politically motivated.
“Ojub Titijew to accuse – that’s not right,” says the farm worker Salam Daschajew and it looks a Prosecutor Milana with a firm look in the eyes. “He is innocent, we all know that,” says the witness before the court in the Chechen Shali. There, human rights activists Ojub Titijew is made since July, the process. The Prosecutor responded angrily: “Is this your personal opinion?” “No – they all think that,” replied Daschajew. “How do you know so exactly?”, the Prosecutor drilled in her blue Uniform with the Golden shoulder to flaps. “Because I know him since his Childhood,” responds Salam Daschajew. Titijew, who ran for nearly ten years, the office of the human rights organization Memorial in the Chechen capital, Grozny, sitting since January for alleged drug possession in custody. The investigators claim to have in his car, marijuana was found. The activist rejected the allegations are repeated as the invention.
Ojub Titijew hopes on a ruling until the end of the year
Witnesses to doubt the allegation
“The Ojub does not smoke but not even, he’s drinking,” says the witness. He pray regularly, take is almost time. “And drugs?” He shakes his head, as if to say: How can someone come up with such a ridiculous idea? Judge Madina Zainetdinowa trying to keep a straight face. Only armed with machine guns security forces to do, and begin to laugh, as one witness after the other explains what a honest and sincere person Ojub Titjew.
Alexander Cherkasov of Memorial, Moscow has taken the prize for Ojub Titijew in reception
The courtroom is filled to the last seat. To have observers at the Chechen police, Titijew at the time of his arrest marijuana planted. Natalia Prilutskaya of Amnesty International in London, doubts the Arrest: “We believe that Titijew is accused for political reasons,” she says of the German wave. During his time as head of Memorial, accused Titijew on several occasions, the local police since 1999, thousands of people murdered and kidnapped. For his commitment to human rights in Russia, the Euro, has been awarded the Council of Europe recently with the prestigious Vaclav Havel award. Since Titijew sits in custody, Alexander Cherkasov of Memorial in Moscow, the price for him. He also travelled to the Shali, in order to support Titijew during the process, because he believes that the charges were invented in order to bring Titijew to Silence.
SPD representative in the courtroom
Titijew sits during the hearing from behind a prison lattice. His legs are on top of each other beaten, his hands folded lie in front of him. He followed the testimony closely, and acts taken. The sequence of these processes is to him of proceedings against other human rights activists is well known, only that he was at the time, as an observer.
Nils Schmid of the SPD, made a special trip to the process to Grozny
In the audience, in addition to the representatives of the French and the German Embassy in Moscow, sits the foreign policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group, Nils Schmid. He’s come especially to the process. As the representatives of other Western governments, and calls for the immediate release Ojub Titijews. The Chechen government to know that Berlin is pursuing the course of the process against Titijew. The importance of the worldwide attention for this process, one of the lawyers of Titijew clear: Without this Titjew would not be likely to be alive.
In the end, the court adjourned until the 19th century. November. When you go Titijew Deutsche Welle says: “I am confident and believe that it will be by the end of this year a judgment.”