FSB on the wire

Five citizens detained on February 19 in Chelyabinsk in the case of hooliganism, which the police opened after the action at the regional FSB, were released on Tuesday evening. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to Vyacheslav Panin, a lawyer of one of the defendants.

As one of the defendants in the case specified, the anarchist Dmitry Semenov, he was released on a recognizance not to leave. Two other defendants - Dmitry and his friend Anastasia (surnames are not specified) was not elected preventive measure.

Two more detainees - Semenov’s cousin, as well as a friend of the activist, who was in the city passage - pass in the case with witnesses. Nevertheless, they also remained in the police until the afternoon of February 20; They released both a little earlier than activists.

According to Panin, Semenov and two other anarchists are in the status of suspects. Meanwhile, Semenov himself said that he was already charged.

During the searches on Monday, who passed with Semenov, his cousin and Dmitry, with whom Anastasia lives, computers and mobile phones were seized. Semenov said that books, documents and money were also taken from him. The detainees spent the night and the next day in the regional UFSB, where, as the activist said to them, "physical impact measures were used."

“I stood in an uncomfortable pose for hours, squeezed my hands handcuffs, there are traces of handcuffs,” said the activist. “Brother and my roadway (even despite the fact that they are witnesses, and not suspects. - Ed.) Beat a shocker.”

“I was not on the shares, I’m trying to defend my alibi,” Semenov concluded. “I did not know about the action before the detention. I gave the appropriate testimony.”

The promotion of the regional FSB was held on the evening of February 14 in connection with the torture of the defendants in the case of the "network" - a fictional FSB of a terrorist anarchist organization; The arrests in the case were held in Penza and St. Petersburg, and in both cities the accused was cruelly tortured. Protesters secured a banner with the inscription "FSB - the main terrorist" on the fence of the special services management fence, after which they threw a smoke saber for the fence.

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On the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the action was described as follows: "One of the administrative buildings in the center of the city of Chelyabinsk unknown persons placed an extremist banner." The case was opened under paragraph "b" of part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism based on hatred or enmity). This norm provides for up to five years in the colony.

The media reported on Tuesday in the morning on Tuesday in the morning about the detentions of activists, in which the investigators participated in the morning. Later it was unofficially reported that the suspects were sent to the IVS. However, in the IVS, and in the city OP "Central", and in the Federal Penitentiary Service - where the detainees were actually located - the Agoras lawyer Andrei Lepakhin stated that they had no activists. The head of the inquiry department of OP "Central" claimed that after interrogations all the defendants were released.

In its publication about the case, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that it was trying to identify "additional episodes of them (defendants. - Ed.) Unlawful activities." However, the Mediazon does not specify whether there was about interrogations about any other episodes besides the action at the FSB headquarters.