On Monday 18 March, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service, as well as the chairs of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, David McAllister, and the Human Rights Subcommittee, Antonio Panzeri, denounced the sentencing earlier in the day of the “prominent human rights defender”, Oyub Titiev, director of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen Republic, to four years of imprisonment in a penal colony for “large-scale marijuana possession”.
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