Adam Kadyrov came with his dad to the pre-trial detention center to punish
Member of the State Duma from United Russia Adam Delimkhanov
commented reports that the son of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov
Adam beat the accused of burning the Koran Nikita Zhuravel in the Grozny SIZO.
Delimkhanov said that he, the State Duma deputies and senators from Chechnya support Adam Kadyrov. According to the deputy, the latter, “being a worthy heir” of the first president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, “showed an example of patriotism and the desire to protect religion and our shrines.”
Mansur Soltaev told reporters that he had already talked to the arrested person. The young man told him that he had been beaten after a personal meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, his son. “Allegedly beat on the hands, on the legs. And directly in communication, he conveyed his appeal, a statement addressed to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Moskalkova, ”the Chechen Ombudsman added (quote from Grozny Inform).
Mr. Sotlaev also conveyed a statement by Nikita Zhuravel, in which he clarifies that during a meeting with the head of Chechnya, he “apologised for having committed a crime against Muslims” and “sincerely repented of the crime.”
In May, Zhuravel burned a Koran near the Cathedral Mosque in the center of Volgograd. During the interrogation, he claimed that he acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services for a reward of 10 thousand rubles, and also that he filmed military installations for them. Against the man opened a case according to part 2 of Art. 148 of the Criminal Code (public actions committed in order to offend the religious feelings of believers in places intended for worship), which threatens up to three years in prison.
May 21 case transferred to Chechnya. The reason for this was “a number of grounds, in particular, numerous appeals” from residents of Chechnya with a request to “recognize them as victims”, explained in the UK.
The head of the Ministry of Justice, Konstantin Chuichenko, said that Zhuravel should serve his sentence in the Russian region of the country with a predominantly Muslim population. According to him, “this will promote respect for religion and the religious feelings of believers in our multinational and multi-confessional country.”
May 27 Zhuravel taken to jail in Grozny. Prior to this, a rally was held in the city. About 60,000 people took part in the rally, and the audience condemned the burning of the Koran.
The head of Chechnya addressed to the leaders of Muslim countries with a call to “repel the servants of Satan” because of the burning of the Koran in the Scandinavian countries. He said that after “we finish in Ukraine”, after that “we will go to those countries where they insulted, insulted the Holy Koran.”