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Chechnya: Uyub Titiev in jail, human rights gagged

In Chechnya, the head of the human rights organization Memorial, Oyub Titiev, was sentenced this week to four years in prison in a penal colony for the illegal possession of narcotics. Evidence fabricated by the NGO that has increasingly difficult to work in Chechnya, a small republic of the Russian Federation in the hands of the powerful President Ramzan Kadyrov, supported without flinching by Vladimir Putin.

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