29 October 2022, 16:21
Resident of Gudermes District publicly reprimanded for witchcraft
Law enforcers have detained Khasukha Suliev, a resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded him for engaging in occultism.
"He offered his clients to change the course of fate, to bewitch a person or destroy a family," the "Grozny" TV Channel* has informed on the Instagram.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that since July 2019, the persecution of residents engaged in providing occult services has intensified in Chechnya. Thus, in March this year, the above Adam Elzhurkaev publicly scolded a woman from the Nozhai-Yurt District, detained for practicing witchcraft.
The hunt for sorcerers is also underway in other republics of Northern Caucasus, Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist, who published a study on Islamic medicine clinics in December 2020, believes. According to his story, in Dagestan and Chechnya, Islamic exorcists work with the support and funding of local authorities; and residents often prefer turning to healers by ignoring the official medicine.
In Russia, criminal prosecution of psychics and magicians is practiced on charges of fraud, but it can be difficult to prove the fraudulent intent in such cases; therefore, law enforcement bodies "do not really like" such cases, Abusupyan Gaitaev, a lawyer, has noted.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 29, 2022 at 10:12 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
