A lawyer from Chechnya was sentenced to forced labor
The Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced lawyer Timur 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, Idalov 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. Later, he said that the charges against him were fabricated. The defense called the initiation of a criminal case revenge on the lawyer who is acting 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. In addition, the lawyer represented the interests of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, who was convicted of organizing murders. He also collaborated with the project "For Human Rights" and specialized in cases related to charges of terrorism and high-profile murders.
Journalists, among other things, suggest that the case against Idalov could have been initiated because he compiled a protocol for the interrogation of the former commander of the Wagner PMC, Andrei Medvedev. He told the media about extrajudicial executions committed by PMC fighters.
