An NTV film crew is pursuing a lawyer in the “Penza case” and two St. Petersburg human rights activists

In St. Petersburg, a film crew from the NTV channel is pursuing lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, who is defending Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the “Penza case,” as well as POC members Yana Teplitskaya and Ekaterina Kosarevskaya.

First, an NTV film crew waylaid Kosarevskaya at the exit from the prison hospital. An employee of the TV channel, who introduced herself as Maria (probably NTV stringer Maria Borzunova - MZ), asked the human rights activist if she had helped anyone as a member of the POC, why she “uses the feelings of parents, promising to help their children,” and how often she meets with the consul Ukraine. Kosarevskaya, in turn, asked NTV employees how they knew where to find her and whether she correctly understood that this data was provided to them by the FSIN.

a meeting with the film crew Then Teplitskaya announced . Near the house, a girl approached her and introduced herself as Alexandra Miroshnichenko. The PMC member was not told whether the film crew had an editorial assignment or for which program they wanted to talk to her. Teplitskaya was asked what she discussed with the Consul General of Ukraine. An NTV employee said that, apparently, Teplitskaya “acts in the interests of the Right Sector (banned in Russia) and extremists.”

Judging by the video that Cherkasov’s lawyer published on Facebook, when he went for a run, he was “pounced” by a film crew who “herded him all day near his house.” An employee of the TV channel who did not introduce herself asked the lawyer why he was “defending terrorists” and whether he really “supported the Maidan.”

In a conversation with Mediazona, Kosarevskaya noted that she and Cherkasov were pursued by one film crew, and Teplitskaya by another.

Earlier, the mother of anti-fascist Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the “Penza case,” Elena Bogatova , said that on April 10, the investigator called her for a conversation and offered to give an interview to NTV, in which it was necessary to confirm that her son was involved in the “terrorist community “Network”.” The investigator also told Bogatova not to mention that the defendants in the case played airsoft together. The woman was promised that this interview with her son “will count in court.”

Bogatova agreed to talk with the channel’s employees, the filming lasted until 23:00. During the interview, according to the woman, she was asked leading questions. In particular, NTV was interested in whether the mother of the arrested anti-fascist communicates with human rights activists.

“I understand that I can’t be friends with them because they tortured my son, but on the other hand, I’m afraid... And again I’m following their lead... I’m afraid that he’ll go to jail for no reason,” the woman said.

In October 2017, FSB officers detained four anti-fascists in Penza - Yegor Zorin, Ilya Shakursky, Vasily Kuksov and Dmitry Pchelintsev. Later, Andrei Chernov was detained in Penza, and Arman Sagynbaev was detained in St. Petersburg. At the beginning of 2018, Igor Shishkin and Viktor Filinkov were also detained in St. Petersburg, and in April it became known about another person involved - Yulia Boyarshinov . All of them became defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). At least two people involved in the case are wanted; According to Mediazona, they left Russia.

According to the FSB, the Network planned to carry out explosions during the presidential elections and the World Cup in order to “sway the masses to further destabilize the political situation in the country,” as well as to raise an armed rebellion.

Pchelintsev , Shakursky and Filinkov , as well as witness Ilya Kapustin , detained in St. Petersburg, said that FSB officers tortured them, extracting confessions. Members of the Public Monitoring Committee recorded on the bodies of Filinkov and Shishkin . traces of beatings and electric shock burns

Earlier, a film crew with an NTV employee, who introduced herself to Yana Teplitskaya Alexandra Miroshnichenko, pursued the co-chairman of the “Voice” movement, Roman Udot, at Sheremetyevo airport. Golos said that NTV had been illegally tracking Udot’s movements for several years, as well as collecting and disseminating information about his private life.

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