There is currently great unrest in Russia. Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov has published a video of his 15-year-old son beating a man in custody accused of burning the Quran. Kadyrov was visibly proud and called the beaten man ‘scum’ and a ‘cancer’.
“I don’t like understatements. It is always better to draw a firing line – a truthful and honest line… He hit him and it was good,” Kadyrov wrote about his video published on Telegram. According to the banned Russian news portal Medusa, the incident allegedly took place in a detention center in the Chechen capital Grozny.
The ruler of Chechnya called people who destroy the Holy Scriptures “scum who do not want the people of Russia to live side by side in peace and tranquility.” 15-year-old Adam Kadyrov and 19-year-old Nikita Schurawjel can be seen in the recordings:
Shurawyel was arrested in May for a public burning of the Koran and later transferred to the Russian republic of Chechnya. “Such provocateurs and traitors are a cancer on a body that needs to be burned out,” Kadyrov concluded.
Claims for prosecution
But there were also calls for the young person to be prosecuted. According to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, the man had already reported assault in August. Although burning a Quran is a “socially dangerous act that hurts the religious feelings of millions of believers,” Moskalkova wrote on Telegram after the video’s publication that only a court could punish the man.
Serious human rights violations and enforced disappearances
Civil rights activists have been accusing Kadyrov and the leaders in Chechnya of serious human rights violations such as kidnappings, torture and murder for years. There was no criticism of the video in Chechnya itself. Kadyrov’s cousin Adam Delimchanov, a member of Russia’s parliament, described the abuse as “a worthy example for his colleagues.”
The Kremlin remains silent
The Kremlin declined to comment on the scandal on Tuesday. According to Russian news agency Interfax, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the start of his press conference that he would not comment on the recordings. When asked why he didn’t want to, he replied: ‘Because I don’t want to.’ According to the BBC, citing Russian legal experts, the video violates at least nine Russian laws, as well as the Russian constitution. and the international convention against torture was abolished.
Source: Krone
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