Merkacheva reported that Zhuravel was in a penal colony in the Ulyanovsk region.

Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, said that Nikita Zhuravel, convicted of burning the Koran and treason, is in a correctional facility in the Ulyanovsk region. She announced this on March 31.

"Nikita Zhuravel has been found. I wrote a touching letter to my mother. He is in a penal colony in the Ulyanovsk region. He writes that he is alive and well," the ombudsman wrote on the Telegram channel.

According to the human rights activist, the letter is dated March 26. Merkacheva noted that the problem of the lack of information about prisoners during their transportation between institutions remains relevant.

On March 26, the Federal Penitentiary Service reported that reports of Zhuravel's "disappearance without a trace" were not true. It was clarified that the defendant continues to serve his sentence in one of the institutions of the penal system.

In May 2023, in Volgograd, Zhuravel burned the Koran near the Cathedral Mosque on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services. After that, the investigators opened a criminal case on insulting the feelings of believers (Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case was transferred for investigation to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic. Later, the man was taken to the Grozny pre-trial detention center.

On February 27, 2024, a court in Grozny sentenced Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Koran, to 3.5 years in prison in a general regime colony. The victims in the case were 13 imams of Grozny mosques. On the same day, Zhuravel himself declared that he deserved the sentence. He also apologized for his actions to those who profess Islam.

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