A picketer with a poster in support of a beaten defendant in the Koran burning case was detained in St. Petersburg

On Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Alexander Sidelev was detained, who stood in a single picket with a poster “I/We are Nikita Zhuravel.” His girlfriend reported this to OVD-Info.

The detainee is taken to police department No. 78. According to police officers, he is charged with violating Covid restrictions.

Nikita Zhuravel was sent to a pre-trial detention center in May on charges of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, a young man burned the Koran near a mosque on Povorinskaya Street in Volgograd. He filmed the burning and distributed the recording via telegram.

Subsequently, the Investigative Committee granted territorial jurisdiction to the case, citing “numerous appeals from residents of the Chechen Republic with a request to recognize them as victims.” Zhuravel in the Grozny pre-trial detention center. On August 16, he said that the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, visited him in the detention center along with his son Adam, and the latter beat him. On September 25, the head of Chechnya videoed the beating in his Telegram channel.

changed delivered reported published Alexander Sidelev was released from the police department with a report on violation of covid restrictions (clause 2 of article 8.6.1 of the Law “On Administrative Offenses in St. Petersburg”).

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