The 'mini-Kadirov' beating of a prisoner for burning the Koran
Who. Adam Kadirov (born 2007) is the second youngest son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadirov, an ally of Vladimir Putin in the Caucasus..
That. Adam beat up a 19-year-old man in prison for burning a Koran last August.
Because. He has been competing in martial arts since he was eight years old and his father has tried to turn him into a religious exponent of his authoritarian regime.
In 2013, Chechen religious scholars named 6-year-old Adam Kadirov “Russia's youngest hafiz,” a category applied to a person who has memorized the Quran by heart.. His father, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadirov, has raised his children in a mixture of Islam, violence and autocracy: when the large-scale invasion began he sent them to the front and they are becoming increasingly important to take charge of the dynasty.. That is why it has not surprised anyone that he has beaten a detainee accused of burning his most sacred book.
Nikita Zhuravel, 19, was detained on charges of publicly setting fire to a Koran in the southwestern region of Volgograd. Unfortunately for him, the criminal case against him was transferred to the Muslim-majority republic of Chechnya after “multiple requests” from citizens of this region.
Russia's presidential human rights commission received a complaint from Zhuravel accusing Adam, the Chechen leader's 15-year-old son, of beating him while in detention.
Chechnya has promised to investigate the incident, but Putin's own viceroy in the Caucasus appears to have ended the discussion, proclaiming Monday that he is proud of his son for beating a prisoner accused of burning the Koran.. “He hit him and he did the right thing,” Kadirov said, adding that “anyone who violates any sacred scripture must be severely punished.”. He even shared the video of the attack.
Kadyrov has enjoyed generous funding from Putin in exchange for keeping Chechnya under control. You are also allowed to apply the law capriciously. The little Kadirov has inherited his father's punishing instinct. Adam Kadirov has been fighting since childhood. When he was eight years old, his fight in Grozny at the Grand Prix Ajmat 2016 mixed martial arts (MMA) tournament was shown on the Russian sports channel Match TV.
Officially, children under 12 years old are prohibited from participating in MMA competitions.. Not only was Adam not old enough. Ajmet, the firstborn, was 10 years old. Y Zelimkhan, 9. Kadyrov's offspring defeated their opponents in front of their father. This sparked criticism even within Russia: Fedor Emelianenko, veteran mixed martial arts champion (and who at the time was the president of the Russian MMA Union) said that it was “outrageous” that children of that age “beat each other while adults they look entertained». Adam continued to fight.
Chechnya's human rights defender promised to examine the attack on the detainee. But Russian investigators have already upped the ante and claimed that Zhuravel, originally from Ukraine, was paid to photograph Russian military sites for the Ukrainian secret services.
The cases are piling up and the Russian Parliament is charging against him. Adam Delimkhanov, a senior member of the security and anti-corruption committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament, said the young madman had “even acted very humanely” since Zhuravel is still alive after all. The Kremlin, which likes to present Russia as a bastion of anti-fascism and Christian essences, has preferred not to comment on this brutal episode.