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The Penza court extended the arrest of Dmitry Pchelintsev, a defendant in the case of a terrorist community.
The Leninsky District Court of Penza extended the arrest of Dmitry Pchelintsev, a defendant in the terrorism case, until June 18, 2018. A correspondent reports this from the courtroom.
OVD-Info At the meeting, the head of the investigation team, Tokarev, petitioned to make the meeting closed. Pchelintsev's lawyer Zaitsev asked him if there were state secrets in the case. To this Tokarev replied that no, but there is a secret of the investigation, and the participants in the meeting did not sign a non-disclosure agreement.
After the judge filed Tokarev's petition. The meeting was held behind closed doors.
approved Pchelintsev is accused of participating in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). He was arrested in October 2017.
- At the same time, in October, Yegor Zorin was arrested (he was later transferred to house arrest), Ilya Shakursky, Vasily Kuksov, and Andrei Chernov. Arman Sagynbaev was taken from St. Petersburg to Penza and also placed in an isolation ward. All of them were accused of participating in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). According to the FSB, the young people participated in an organization called “Network,” which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. Network members were allegedly preparing for the outbreak of unrest in the country. Those involved in the terrorism case in Penza talked about psychological pressure, electric shock torture, “hanging upside down” and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. After some time, Pchelintsev retracted his statement.
refused - on January 23, anti-fascist and programmer Viktor Filinkov disappeared in St. Petersburg. Two days later they found him - the court wrote that he had been arrested and pleaded guilty to participating in the terrorist organization “Network” (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). According to the FSB, its participants were allegedly preparing for the outbreak of unrest in the country
press service 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 in St. Petersburg arrested Shishkin on the same charges as Filinkov. Investigative actions were authorized by one of the district courts of Penza.
St. PetersburgMembers of the St. Petersburg Public Monitoring Commission over those arrested in St. Petersburg. One of the witnesses in the case also spoke about torture.