Sentenced student Nikita Zhuravel was left to serve his sentence in a pre-trial detention center in Chechnya

Sentenced to 3.5 years on charges of burning the Koran, 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel remained to serve his sentence in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Grozny, where he was kept during the investigation and trial.

Lawyer Yulia Antonova said that a former student from Volgograd works in the maintenance department of the detention center and everything is fine with him, although she saw her client two months ago.

Earlier in court, Zhuravel said that he burned the Koran not because of certain beliefs, but for the promise of a monetary reward. This happened in May 2023 in Volgograd near the cathedral mosque. In Grozny, a student was tried for publicly insulting the feelings of believers and hooliganism. He admitted his guilt and apologized.

At the end of September 2023, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a video in which his 16-year-old son Adam beats Nikita Zhuravel in a pre-trial detention center. After this, Kadyrov Jr. received many state and republican awards and titles.

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