Arrest extended for defendant in Network case in St. Petersburg

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the arrest of Yulia Boyarshinova, a defendant in the case of the terrorist community “Network,” until June 22. This was reported by a source from the courtroom.

OVD-InfoBoyarshinov is accused of illegal possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) and participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). The young man was last charged on April 11.

At first, only three people were allowed into the meeting - one member of the Human Rights Council and two journalists from the Dozhd TV channel. Correspondents from Novaya Gazeta, Mediazona, and ZakS.Ru into the hall. The judge later declared the trial closed.

OVD-Info did not hit Yuli Boyarshinov - an industrial climber from St. Petersburg. The police detained him on January 21 - then they found 400 grams of black powder on the young man. Two days later he was arrested for 30 days, accused of illegal possession of explosives.

Since the end of January, FSB officers began to visit the young man. They told Boyarshinov the names of the defendants and threatened that if the young man did not talk to them, then “it would be worse for him.” Boyarshinov refused to communicate with them, citing Article 51 of the Constitution.

“Penza case” Two weeks later, from pre-trial detention center No. 1 (), he was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the village of Gorelovo, which, according to Novaya Gazeta, is considered a torture facility. During check-in, Boyarshinov was beaten by his cellmates for no reason.

“Crosses-2” writes After this, the visits of FSB officers were repeated. During one of them, they said: “We made it worse for you, let’s talk, otherwise the conditions of detention will worsen.” Boyarshinov refused to talk to them, and on the same day he was transferred to a cell containing about 150 people.

“They don’t give him electric shocks, but the conditions in which my client is located are torture,” says Olga Krivonos. She also said that Boyarshinov has chronic tonsillitis, a disease of the upper respiratory tract in which the tonsils become inflamed. It gets worse in such conditions.

• On March 16, in pre-trial detention center No. 6, anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov. He is accused of participating in the terrorist organization “Network” (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). According to the FSB, its participants were preparing for the outbreak of unrest in the country. Filinkov admitted guilt, but later stated that he did it under torture. Members of the Public Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg found numerous traces of burns from a stun gun on the body of an anti-fascist. Businessman Igor Shishkin is involved in the same case; he did not report torture, but the Public Monitoring Committee also recorded injuries on his body. Investigative actions were authorized by one of the district courts of Penza. transferred and recorded in St. Petersburg - In October 2017, five people were arrested in Penza. Another person was transported from St. Petersburg to Penza and also placed in an isolation ward. All were accused of participating in a terrorist community. According to the FSB, the young people participated in an organization called “Network,” which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. 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.