In St. Petersburg, the court left Igor Shishkin, a defendant in the Network case, under arrest

The St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court to arrest Igor Shishkin, a suspect in the case of a terrorist community. This was reported in the telegram channel of the joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg.

The period of detention was reduced by one day until March 22, 2018. The defense asked to transfer Shishkin under house arrest or change the preventive measure to bail of one million rubles.

• On January 25, St. Petersburg resident Igor Shishkin disappeared - he went for a walk with his dog. The dog returned home not alone, but with the security forces, who conducted a search. The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg arrested Shishkin on suspicion of participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). Investigative actions in St. Petersburg were authorized by one of the district courts of Penza.
• Igor Shishkin did not report torture, however, the local POC recorded numerous injuries and burns on the young man’s body. Shishkin himself says that he was injured during training. Members of the commission say that Shishkin “asked permission from the employees for every action he took” and asked the commission members not to do anything that could cause dissatisfaction among the employees.

On January 8, Igor Shishkin filed a petition to conclude a pre-trial agreement on cooperation with the investigation. On January 25, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested left-wing activist Viktor Filinkov for two months under a similar article. According to investigators, “Filinkov and other unidentified persons, sharing anarchist ideology, took part in a unit of the terrorist community for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities, propaganda, justification and support of terrorism.” On January 26 it became known that he was tortured. The Republic publication, having familiarized itself with the case materials,wrote that the FSB believes that there is an organization called “Network”, which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. The members of this organization, according to security officials, planned to use terrorist attacks to “sway the masses in order to further destabilize the political situation in the country.” They allegedly planned to carry out explosions during the presidential elections and the World Cup, as well as to raise an armed rebellion. According to the FSB, Shishkin and the other seven people who were arrested in St. Petersburg and Penza are members of this organization. * The persons involved in the terrorism case in Penza talked about torture and planted weapons.