Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Third Court of Appeal, during a visiting session in the Volgograd Regional Court, upheld the verdict in the case of high treason against Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Koran. This was reported by RIA Novosti, citing the words of the convicted man's lawyer, Andrei Sabinin.
“The complaint was dismissed, the sentence came into force,” the agency quotes the lawyer as saying.
On November 25, 2024, the Volgograd Regional Court sentenced Zhuravel to 13.5 years in prison for treason; he will spend a total of 14 years in prison, taking into account another unserved term.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Zhuravel burned the Koran near the Cathedral Mosque in Volgograd in May 2023 and posted the video online. He admitted that he did this on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services for a reward of 10 thousand rubles. In February 2024, the court sentenced him to 3.5 years in a general regime penal colony.
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