The court hearing in the case of Nikita Zhuravel was postponed due to the failure of Chechen imams to appear
The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny for the second time postponed the consideration of the criminal case against 19-year-old student from Volgograd Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran. This is due to the non-appearance of the victims - 13 imams of mosques in Chechnya. The meeting was postponed to November 16.
At the same time, the court questioned two prosecution witnesses from Volgograd via video link: the imam of the cathedral mosque and a correspondent. The second of them described how he discovered a video of the burning of the Koran on the Internet. Zhuravel himself again apologized for his actions to Muslims.
In August, Nikita Zhuravel stated that he was beaten by Kadyrov’s son Adam in a pre-trial detention center in Grozny. A month later, the head of Chechnya published a video of the beating. Two weeks later, Kadyrov announced that his son was awarded the title “Hero of the Chechen Republic.”
Recently, a member of United Russia, deputy Azat Khamaev, at a meeting of the Tatarstan parliament, criticized the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for beating prisoners and awarding his son the title of Hero. However, the next day he publicly apologized, calling his expression overly emotional.
Later, Adam Kadyrov was presented with another award: the head of Tatarstan Minnikhanov awarded him the Order of Duslyk for his contribution to strengthening interethnic and interfaith peace and harmony.
