A lawyer from Chechnya tried to hold a judge accountable for illegally holding him in custody
The Supreme Court of Russia refused to consider the application of lawyer Timur Idalov to bring Khimki City Court judge Lyudmila Fedorchenko to criminal liability. She allowed him to be detained for over a month, despite the fact that the verdict was not related to the restriction of freedom.
 
The lawyer's application stated that the judge, together with other colleagues, intentionally allowed his illegal deprivation of freedom. Previously, he was sentenced to almost two years of forced labor. After the verdict, Idalov was illegally held in Moscow's SIZO-4 for a month. At the same time, the Moscow prosecutor's office and the leadership of the FSIN institution were obliged to initiate his release, but did not take any measures.
 
Recently, the Moscow Regional Court released Timur Idalov from punishment. His lawyer status was also restored.
 
At the end of November 2024, the court sentenced Idalov to 1 year and 11 months of forced labor in the case of threats to kill or cause bodily harm to the prosecutor. The criminal case was opened because in 2022, in the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow, the lawyer said to the prosecutor: "What are you, Commissioner Cattani? That's how they shot him." The lawyer himself assured that he said this phrase in the heat of the moment, and that it was in no way a threat. Later, he said that the charges against him were fabricated. The defense called the initiation of a criminal case revenge on the lawyer, who acted as a defense attorney in a number of high-profile criminal cases.
 
Timur Idalov is known for having appealed to the ECHR against the actions of the authorities during his arrest and imprisonment in a Moscow pretrial detention center and won the case. He also collaborated with the "For Human Rights" project and specialized in cases related to terrorism charges and high-profile murders.
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