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[KavkazUzel] The ombudsman's office has the legal right to seek from the Chechen police to verify information about the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, and the ombudsman's statement about the impossibility of doing this is explained by the reluctance to enter into confrontation with Ramzan Kadyrov, lawyers considered.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on February 7, the Russian Ombudsman's Office reported that the Chechen police, after an inspection, refused to open a criminal case for the beating of Nikita Zhuravel "due to the absence of a crime," and the supervising prosecutor recognized this decision as "legal and justified." In addition, Zhuravel’s criminal case is being processed by the court, and “at this stage of criminal proceedings, take measures within the competence established by the federal constitutional law of February 26, 1997 No. 1-FKZ “On the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation”, to Unfortunately, it is not possible," the document says.
On September 25, 2023, Ramzan Kadyrov published a video in which his son Adam beats Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested for burning the Koran, in a pre-trial detention center. The head of Chechnya praised his son for this act. In October 2023, it became known that the police refused to initiate a criminal case, since criminal liability for crimes of this kind is provided for people over 16 years old, and Adam Kadyrov at that time had not reached this age.
Footage of Adam Kadyrov beating Nikita Zhuravel is in itself a sufficient reason for an investigation, says Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Civic Assistance Committee.
“The situation is such that no special investigation is required, the footage recorded by the perpetrators speaks for itself, therefore no additional actions are required for the investigative authorities. There is a political directive, and the case of the beating of Zhuravel is not the only one, it differs only in its scope. In the same way, case of [co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center] Oleg Orlov *, he, his lawyer and public defender Muradov clearly said that the case was won, and now it has been returned again... The court and the investigation make exclusively political decisions and all in one key, innocent people are being tried, loyalty to the authorities and personal closeness to those who make up the upper layer are being assessed,” Gannushkina told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.
She also noted that Kadyrov Jr.’s minor age is not a basis for stopping his prosecution. “Minors are put in the dock with their parents, who are responsible for their upbringing, and this man received medals for his crime,” the human rights activist said.
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