A lawyer from Chechnya filed a lawsuit against a Moscow prosecutor and the head of a pretrial detention center
A lawyer from Chechnya, Timur Idalov, filed a lawsuit with the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow. He asks to bring to administrative responsibility the head of the department for supervision of compliance with laws in the execution of criminal sentences of the Moscow prosecutor's office, Alexey Zyazev, and the head of pretrial detention center No. 4, Igor Kempel. Idalov accused them of illegally depriving him of liberty from November 28 to December 27, 2024.
In his lawsuit, the lawyer claims that he was illegally detained in pretrial detention center No. 4 for a month, despite the sentence that did not provide for imprisonment. At the same time, the Moscow prosecutor's office and the leadership of the FSIN institution were obliged to initiate his release, but did not take any measures.
Earlier, the Khimki Court of the Moscow Region accepted Timur Idalov's appeal against the sentence handed down to him. At the end of November 2024, the court sentenced him to 1 year and 11 months of forced labor in the case of threats to kill or cause bodily harm to the prosecutor. In addition, he was banned from practicing law for three years.
The criminal 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 acted 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. He also worked with the Human Rights Project and specialized in cases involving terrorism charges and high-profile murders.
