Nikita Zhuravel, convicted of burning the Koran, was also sentenced for treason
A court in Volgograd sentenced 20-year-old student Nikita Zhuravel to 13.5 years in prison on charges of treason. He was also previously convicted of burning the Koran and was held in a pretrial detention center in Chechnya.
 
The 19-year-old was detained in May 2023 in Volgograd for burning the Koran, which he filmed on video. He then admitted that he did it for money, commissioned by the Ukrainian special services. The guy was transferred to the pretrial detention center in Grozny, and later he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. 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 pretrial detention center.
 
Later, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported the initiation of a new criminal case against Zhuravel - for treason. According to investigators, the young man also gave Ukrainian security forces photographs of a train carrying military equipment. Under the new sentence, Zhuravel received 13.5 years in a maximum security prison colony.
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