13 April 2023, 19:01
Advocate Timur Idalov detained in Moscow
The police reported about the detention of a Moscow advocate in a case on a threat of violence to a public officer during a court session. Timur Idalov, representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in the case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”), was detained, and a search was conducted in the Timur Idalov’s house.
“According to the investigators’ version, on October 3, 2022, in the courtroom, the person involved in the case defiantly and loudly, without hiding his contempt for the court, expressed the threats of violence against the public prosecutor,” the Investigating Department for Moscow of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports in its Telegram channel.
A wife of Timur Idalov and their five-year-old son stayed at home during the search. The advocate was forced to the floor, and his family members were shouted at. The wife was not allowed to contact an advocate. All computers and mobile phones were confiscated from the house, the human rights project “OVD-Info”* reported.
Timur Idalov is a former policeman from Chechnya, who was recognized by a Russian court as the leader of the organized crime grouping that kidnapped Serzh Djilavyan, who planned to become the president of Armenia. After his release from prison, Timur Idalov took up advocacy and often spoke in cases related to terrorism, collaborated with the “In Defence of Prisoners’ Rights Foundation”* and the Lev Ponomaryov’s* project “For Human Rights”*, the publication “Novaya Gazeta. Europe” reported.
*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on April 12, 2023 at 11:17 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
