[KavkazUzel] Imams from Chechnya, who are victims in the Nikita Zhuravel case, said that the burning of the Koran insulted them and all Muslims. One of the victims added that watching a video of the Koran being burned led to a jump in blood pressure. | The poor, suffering darling. |
The persecution of Nikita Zhuravel is politically motivated and aimed at intimidating the public, the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” said on November 16. More details about the Zhuravel case are stated in the “Caucasian Knot” reference “ The beating of Nikita Zhuravel: why did Kadyrov’s men need to publish the video.”
In the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny, at the hearing in the case of the burning of the Koran by Nikita Zhuravl, five Chechen imams, recognized as victims, spoke. In their speeches, they said that Zhuravel’s act caused “enormous moral harm to all Muslims.”
The imam of the mosque in the Avtotrest village, Isa Tasuev, called the burning of the Koran an immoral act. “He caused enormous moral harm to me and all Muslims,” the Chechen state agency Chechnya Today quoted him as saying.
The sacred scriptures of any denomination must be protected, and everyone must treat them with respect, noted Apti Barzukaev, the imam of a mosque in the Sheikh-Mansurovsky district of Grozny. “The burning of the Koran offended not only me, it should offend any sane person. I don’t even want to look at this,” he said in court.
The imam of the mosque in the village of Turbina, Khasan Gorshuev , said that when he watched the video, his blood pressure jumped. “This is not just an insult, it’s worse than an insult for me. I felt bad, I stopped watching it. My blood pressure rose,” the Chechnya Today news agency correspondent quotes the victim as saying.
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The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on September 25, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video in which his son Adam Kadyrov beats Nikita Zhuravel in a pre-trial detention center. After this, Kadyrov's son received a number of awards. So, on October 6 it became known that he had been awarded the title of Hero of Chechnya. Then the head of Tatarstan awarded him the Order of Duslyk, the head of Karachay-Cherkessia - the Order of Merit for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic (the highest state award of the republic), and the Mufti of Karachay-Cherkessia awarded Adam Kadyrov the Order of Merit for the Ummah. On November 7, Adam Kadyrov received the highest award of Kabardino-Balkaria (Order of Merit for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), and on November 9 he was awarded the highest order of the Chechen parliament “Daimekhkan Siy”.
On November 5, it became known that Adam Kadyrov had been appointed head of the security department of the head of Chechnya. This appointment does not correlate well with labor legislation for teenagers and only emphasizes the hereditary principle of the formation of power in the republic, lawyers, security officials and human rights activists noted. They suggested that for Adam Kadyrov this is a test of his ability to lead Chechnya after his father.
Also, 16-year-old Adam Kadyrov was entrusted with overseeing the Sheikh Mansur battalion. Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov expressed confidence that Adam Kadyrov “will do everything necessary to ensure that the battalion’s personnel are provided with everything necessary to carry out their assigned tasks efficiently.” The minor son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov, does not have the competence to lead a military unit, but his appointment as curator of the Chechen battalion of the Ministry of Defense is intended to introduce him into the circle of security forces, human rights activists interviewed by the Caucasian Knot considered.