02 January 2025, 23:16
Chechen advocate Timur Idalov requests clarification from court
Lawyer Timur Idalov, sentenced for threatening a public prosecutor, appealed to the judge of the Khimki City Court, pointing out the violation of the norms of criminal procedure law in the decisions on his case. Because of the above-mentioned violations, as Timur Idalov claims, he was unlawfully left in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).
The “Caucasian Knot’ has reported that on October 31, it became known that Chechen advocate Timur Idalov, accused in the case on threats to the public prosecutor, was detained in Grozny. On November 28, a court in the city of Khimki in the Moscow Region sentenced Timur Idalov to one year and 11 months of forced labour in the case on threats to the public prosecutor. Timur Idalov was also banned from practicing law for three years. Deprivation of the opportunity to practice law became the most severe part of the Timur Idalov’s punishment. The court unreasonably added an aggravating motive in the case on threats to the public prosecutor, which resulted in a harsh punishment, and left Timur Idalov in custody pending appeal, although the court was to immediately release the defendant. Timur Idalov was released on December 27.
On April 12, 2023, Timur Idalov was detained on suspicion of threatening the public prosecutor with violence during a court hearing. However, on July 5, 2023, it became known that the charge was reclassified as a threat to kill or cause harm to the public prosecutor. According to the investigators’ version, on October 3, 2022, Timur Idalov voiced ‘threats of violence” against the public prosecutor in the Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow. Advocate Murad Musaev called the charge “far-fetched.” The advocate explained that Timur Idalov had an altercation with the public prosecutor and that six months later a Timur Idalov’s remark was classified as a threat.
In his motion to the judge, Timur Idalov has pointed out the contradiction between the decision to release him on December 27 and the sentence “that came into legal force on December 14.”
“It turns out that in the period from December 14 to 27, I was being unlawfully kept in custody, being deprived of my liberty, for 14 days,” the advocate claimed.
Let us remind you that Timur Idalov, as an advocate, was representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in a case on the assassination of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”).
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 1, 2025 at 00:50 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Author: Alikhan Mamsurov Source: СK correspondent
