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| Hearing in the case of burning the Koran has been set |
| 2023-10-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Regnum. The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny will begin on October 9 the consideration of the case of burning the Koran, in which Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel is a defendant, follows from the court data. “The criminal case was accepted by the court for proceedings and scheduled for consideration at the court hearing at 10 o’clock on October 9, 2023,” the text says. As Regnum reported, in May, law enforcement officers detained Nikita Zhuravel in Volgograd, who staged a rally with the burning of the Koran near the city mosque. The detainee stated that he took such a step on instructions from the Ukrainian special services , who promised him a monetary reward. Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case for insulting the feelings of believers, and at the end of May the accused was taken to the pre-trial detention center in Grozny . The Investigative Committee of Russia explained that Zhuravel’s case was transferred to investigators in Chechnya, since the agency received numerous appeals from residents of the republic calling for them to be recognized as victims. In mid-June, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the person responsible for burning the Koran would serve his sentence in a colony , which is located in one of the Muslim regions of the Russian Federation. At the end of September, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov , published a video showing his son Adam beating Zhuravel in a pre-trial detention center. Kadyrov said he was proud of his son. |
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