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| Court upholds sentence in treason case against Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Koran |
| 2025-04-09 |
| 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. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 ^Ukrainian cash. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-09 13:11 |
| #3 How is his offense “treason” against Russia? |
| Posted by: KBK 2025-04-09 12:30 |
| #2 We shouldn’t be sending any aid to First World countries, regardless of philosophy. Why we were sending aid to the BBC is a puzzlement to me. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-04-09 00:59 |
| #1 There shouldn't be taxpayer aid sent to countries who don't believe in free speech. Yes, that includes the UK and Europe. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-04-09 00:42 |