Does Anyone in the Kremlin Care About Human Rights? Dunja Mijatovic Is Going to Make Damn Sure They Do.
GROZNY, Chechnya—A prominent human rights defender, 61-year-old Oyub Titiyev, is on trial here in the Russian republic of Chechnya, which has a notoriously authoritarian regime.
Since the day of Titiyev’s arrest last January, Dunja Mijatovic, commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe, has been asking the Kremlin and prosecutor general of the Russian Federation to free Titiyev, head of the Chechen office of the human rights group Memorial.
Titiyev is being tried on spurious charges of drug possession, with a verdict expected on Monday.
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