The defense team for Chechen teenager Muslim Murdiyev intends to appeal the sentence, according to Chechen Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Soltayev. He noted that Murdiyev has already served 11.5 months under house arrest and has one year remaining in prison.

"We will definitely file an appeal to a higher court. We are convinced of Muslim Murdiyev's innocence and intend to defend his rights to the end. The defense, developed jointly with his lawyers, remains firm and consistent. We remain steadfast and will fight for justice using all available legal means," the ombudsman added.

According to him, the teenager intervened in only one fight: he was "defending a 12-year-old child from being beaten."

Yesterday, Moscow's Savelovsky Court sentenced Muslim Murdiyev to one year and eleven months in prison. According to investigators, five teenagers, including Murdiyev, assaulted eight people in September 2023 near Moscow's Aviapark shopping center and Khodynskoye Pole Park. Law enforcement believes the students deliberately provoked verbal conflicts with random passersby, after which they attacked them.

The teenager and his defense categorically deny his guilt. Chechnya Segodnya reports that "the charges stem from a fight in which Muslim stood up for another boy, who was younger. The fight, with the instigator clearly favoring the attacker, was filmed on a cell phone, which served as the basis for the criminal case, but for some reason, not against the instigator himself."