22:27, 23 July 2025

The court upheld the house arrest of Roman Murdiev

The Court of Appeal refused to ease the conditions of house arrest for Chechen teenager Roman Murdiev, who is under house arrest in Moscow on charges of hooliganism, while the other defendants are allowed to leave their homes every day, the Chechen Human Rights Commissioner reported.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, ninth-grader Roman Murdiev (referred to as Muslim in Chechen media), accused of hooliganism, has been deprived of his constitutionally guaranteed right to education, and the teenager's house arrest has been extended several times, said Chechen Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Soltayev. On May 7, the court allowed Murdiev to study at school remotely.

14-year-old Chechen teenager Roman Murdiev has been charged with disturbing public order and using violence (Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "hooliganism"). The reason for the criminal case was a fight in which the teenager, according to him, stood up for a 12-year-old boy he knew. The defense insists on the innocence of Murdiev, who, according to their version, was protecting the boy from another participant in the conflict. In addition to the Chechen teenager, there are four other defendants in the case. Of several videos published by the Investigative Committee, only one, in which Murdiev is named, suggests his participation in the conflict.

The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction considered the appeal against the extension of the arrest in the case of Muslim Murdiev, a teenager who has been under house arrest in Moscow for the second year. The hearing was held via videoconference, the Chechnya Today agency reported.

Human Rights Commissioner Mansur Soltayev participated in the hearing via videoconference from the building of the Supreme Court of Chechnya.

"I am speaking in this case as the Human Rights Commissioner and as Muslim's public defender," he said on his Telegram channel.

"Today, at the hearing of the Court of Appeal, Muslim was again left under strict house arrest. At the same time, the court allowed the other four defendants to go out for a couple of hours daily for fresh air," Soltayev said.

He noted that due to the teenager's health condition, doctors strongly recommend that he go outside. However, despite the medical reports, the court again refused to soften the conditions of house arrest, Soltayev noted. He called Murdiyev's case "politicized".

Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with Murdiyev's case in December 2024, on a direct line, accused the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee - Vladimir Kolokoltsev and Alexander Bastrykin - of professional incompetence. "The Murdiyev case shows that the people at the top, like Bastrykin and Kolokoltsev, are not in their places," the Chechnya Today news agency quoted Kadyrov as saying. Human rights activists interviewed by the Caucasian Knot considered Kadyrov's criticism of the heads of law enforcement agencies to be a test of influence.

You can read more about the Murdiyev case in the Caucasian Knot report "Roman Murdiyev: the teenager Kadyrov stood up for".

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