23:46, 26 June 2026

Social media users recalled Kadyrov's promises to help Murdiyev.

An appeal from the mother of Roman Murdiev, who was sent to a penal colony near Volgograd, has raised numerous questions among social media users. They expressed surprise at the boy's sudden transfer and the silence of the head of Chechnya, who had promised that the teenager "would not be jailed."

As reported by Kavkazsky Knot, the mother of Chechen teenager Roman (Muslim) Murdiev, who was sent to a juvenile correctional facility in the Volgograd region, in June appealed to Putin and Kadyrov, calling on them to ensure the child's safety. According to the mother, she has received threats promising revenge for Nikita Zhuravel, who was beaten by Adam Kadyrov. His mother reported that Murdiyev was transferred to a Volgograd pretrial detention center and placed in solitary confinement, without being allowed to call his family. It was later revealed that Murdiyev is in quarantine at the Volgograd pretrial detention center, but his sentence expires within the next three weeks. His defense does not rule out the possibility that Murdiyev could be released before reaching the Kamyshin correctional facility.

On December 4, 2024, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced that Murdiyev would not be imprisoned. He then stated that human rights activists, deputies, senators, and he personally were handling Murdiyev's case. "They won't jail him, they won't do anything to him. I've personally spoken to everyone. He'll be released soon," Ramzan Kadyrov expressed confidence, as quoted by the Chechnya Today news agency that same day.

The statement by Roman Murdiyev's mother, posted on his Instagram page by lawyer Aslanbek Minkailov*, garnered a strong response from social media users. More than a thousand people commented on the post.

Most of the comments wished the young man a speedy release and expressed solidarity with his mother. Almost all of them, like his mother, call the teenager by his nickname, Muslim. "Freedom for Muslim! Please, if you have any humanity left, help Muslim!" wrote kameta.saltymuratova.

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"How much longer can you mock a child and a family?" maryasha.english was indignant. "Strength and patience to you, Mom, my heart aches for Muslim. I wish you good luck and patience," 1allbarraa addressed Muslim's mother.

"This is lawlessness and arbitrariness of the judicial system! Freedom for Muslim Murdiyev!" - wrote user mari_am_369.

"And why Volgograd, a thousand kilometers away? Why didn't they leave it in Moscow?" asked ud__134. "Why such an attitude? What is this... is he a repeat offender, a murderer?" - zuhra89886 asked herself.

"Hundreds of questions. They're still holding the minor, transferring him to another city, and why did they make a criminal out of a 15-year-old boy when you have so many murderers on the outside? "Maniacs, pedophiles?" - m.a.ch.01 was indignant.

Murdiyev did not initiate the conflict and stood up for the younger teenager, according to relatives and the defense. According to them, the case was marred from the very beginning by violations and the disregard for evidence presented by the lawyers. The defense alleged pressure on the teenager, restrictions on his right to a defense, and a disproportionate preventive measure. The defense also pointed out that, under similar circumstances, other defendants in the case, not originally from the North Caucasus, were removed from the prosecution and served as witnesses. Human rights activists and relatives viewed the trial as a show trial and pointed out possible ethnic bias. x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xl565be x1xlr1w8 x5n08af x1tu3fi x3x7a5m" dir="auto">"It's very strange that they took him away so hastily! The transfer from Moscow to Volgograd takes at least a month!" aslambek720 suggested.

"I honestly don't know anymore. Maybe we should connect to TV? I think there needs to be a lot of publicity here, because it looks like the process is going very strangely, very murky. There's either revenge, or bias, or connections, or something else, but this doesn't look like a normal situation," 333c777 expressed her doubts.

raziet501. "It's high time to connect the TV," noted lara078313.

Some subscribers are interested in Kadyrov's role in Murdiyev's fate. "Why can't Kadyrov help? He wouldn't let anyone harm his own people," madina03.10 asked.

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"Poor boy, couldn't Kadyrov stand up for the child?" - kambulatova_aisha is perplexed.

"Does this government at all react to the violations of judges? What kind of bacchanalia is this? What kind of arbitrariness is this? What kind of malicious injustice are they passing off? And this is not an isolated incident. "This is a case, this happens all the time, especially against Chechens," bilkis_a was indignant.

Murdiyev's case had previously attracted the attention of human rights activists and politicians. In December 2024, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov criticized the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee for initiating a case against the teenager, and the Chechen human rights ombudsman demanded protection for Murdiyev's family from threats against their relatives. "Murdiyev's case shows that the people at the top, like Bastrykin and Kolokoltsev, are not in their places," the head of Chechnya said at the time.

Threats in Zhuravel's name alarmed Murdiev's relatives

Murdiev's defense attorney, Aslanbek Minkailov, previously noted that other minors convicted with him were sent to a correctional facility in another region.

"And everyone thought he would go to Bryansk: the other convicts were taken to Bryansk with him, but for some reason he was sent to the Kamyshin correctional facility. It was disconcerting that Muslim was being sent not to Bryansk, but to the Volgograd region, where Zhuravel is from," the lawyer previously told the "Caucasian Knot."

The name of former Volgograd student Nikita Zhuravel was mentioned in threatening messages received by Roman Murdiev's mother. "What your medal-winning hero (name hidden) did to the defenseless Russian guy Nikita Zhuravel, you will get back a hundredfold from your favorite Muslim," one of them said.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Nikita Zhuravel, Adam Kadyrov. Collage

Beating of Nikita Zhuravel: Why Kadyrov's men needed to publish the video

Nikita Zhuravel's relatives also expressed concerns for his health and life at the end of March. reporting that they had not received any letters from him for three months. On March 26, the Federal Penitentiary Service stated that Nikita Zhuravel's mother had been sent information about his whereabouts, but had not received any such information. The prisoner is not guaranteed the right to communicate while being transported, and Zhuravel risks additional isolation in the penal colony, lawyers indicated.

At the end of March, Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, reported that Nikita Zhuravel, whose whereabouts had been unknown to his relatives for several months, had been "found" in a penal colony in the Ulyanovsk region. According to Merkacheva, Nikita's mother received a letter written by Nikita on March 26 and sent via an electronic messaging system. "He writes that he's alive and well. He writes that he wrote a paper letter home about a month ago and hopes it was received (they weren't)," the human rights activist's post reads.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/424431