A lawyer from Chechnya was released from a Moscow pretrial detention center after a month of illegal detention
Only a month later, a native of Chechnya, lawyer Timur Idalov, was released from Moscow's pretrial detention center No. 4. The man was effectively illegally held in the detention center, since the court had previously sentenced him to forced labor. He accused the head of the pretrial detention center of complicity in his arrest.
At the end of November, the Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced Idalov to 1 year and 11 months of forced labor in a case of threats to kill or cause harm to health against a prosecutor. In addition, he was banned from practicing law for three years. In court, the accused listed the procedural violations committed in the case. He also noted that even the victim herself, prosecutor Tarasova, admitted that he did not threaten to do anything to her.
The case against Idalov was opened because in 2022, in the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow, he told the prosecutor: "What are you, Commissioner Cattani? That's how they shot him." The lawyer himself notes that he said this phrase in the heat of the moment, and that it is in no way a threat. He later stated 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.
