Left activist from Sevastopol Alexey Shestakovich left Russia

Leftist activist from Sevastopol Alexey Shestakovich, who spoke about torture during his arrest on March 1, has left Russia. He said that he is currently in Kherson.

OVD-Info A few days earlier, he posted on Facebook that he had filed a complaint about torture with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

wrote on March 1, security forces conducted a search of Shestakovich, which lasted four hours. Activist of “Mediazona” that an employee of the FSB special unit “Alpha” beat him in the nose, chest and throat in the apartment.

said Almost all this time he spent on the floor, in only underwear and handcuffs. The activist’s mother tried to close the front door because it was cold in the apartment, but the security forces drove her away.

At the end of the search, the security forces put a bag over Shestakovich’s head, in which he was suffocating, and transported him like that. “Mediazona” quotes the activist’s words about what happened next:

put on “The shoes came off - they took out the laces in advance. They squeezed the bag, the air ran out, I began to choke. I try to breathe, they tighten me even more. They drove like this for ten or twenty minutes. At this time, they lifted their hands from behind by the handcuffs, breaking them off. They tell me: “Shout 'I'm an animal!'” I scream - they let me go. The thumb was taken and slowly twisted. It's knocked out now. When it got really bad, the eshnik asked: “Aren’t you feeling seasick there?” Along the way he was also beaten on the legs and head.

After this, it became known that the Leninsky District Court of Sevastopol Shestakovich was sentenced to 11 days, having been charged under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of extremist materials) publication of the songs “Kill the Cosmonauts” and “Synagogue” by the group “Ensemble of Christ the Savior and Mother of the Cheese Earth”, added to the list of extremist materials of the Ministry of Justice.

arrested because

According to a similar article, on this day, trade union activist from Sevastopol Ivan Markov, whose apartment was also searched on March 1, was sentenced to ten days for ten days. The reason for the arrest was the publication in March 2013 of the leaflet “Orthodoxy or Death.” In terms of meaning, the leaflet in no way correlates with the slogan “Orthodoxy or Death,” which was extremist in 2011.

arrested admitted - on March 8, the court filed a complaint against Markov’s arrest, after which the activist was released from the temporary detention facility.

satisfied - March 1 and Igor Panyuta, Artem Vorobyov, Alexey Prisyazhnyuk. On the same day, they, as well as Shestakovich and Markov, were interrogated as witnesses in a criminal case against left-wing activist from Yevpatoriya Evgeniy Karakashev, arrested under Art. 282 (inciting hatred or enmity) and Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code (justification of terrorism). searches were carried out - on February 2, Evgeniy Karakashev was sentenced to two months. The reason for this was the video “Untitled,” published on VKontakte at the end of 2014, and a certain text published on the same social network along with the video “Last Interview of Primorye Partisans,” which was previously included in the Ministry of Justice’s register of extremist materials. arrested - Karakashev himself believes that the initiation of a criminal case against him and the subsequent arrest are related to his activist activities: the man opposed the development of a resort area near Yevpatoria in the vicinity of a salt lake.