The Penza Regional Court left in custody Ilya Shakursky and Andrei Chernov, accused in the case of the terrorist community “Network”. Mediazona reports this with reference to the press service of the court.

Earlier, the Leninsky District Court extended the arrest of Shakursky and Chernov, as well as Dmitry Pchelintsev and Vasily Kuksov, until September 18. Arman Sagynbaev, accused in the same case, will remain in the Penza pre-trial detention center for the same period.

Anti-fascists Dmitry Pchelintsev, Vasily Kuksov, Ilya Shakursky, as well as Yegor Zorin and Andrei Chernov were detained in Penza in October 2017. They are accused of participating in a terrorist organization called “Network” (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code), which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus.
Those involved in the “Network” case talked about psychological pressure, electric shock torture, “hanging upside down” and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. Some defendants refused to confess and reported that they had given them under torture.
In addition to the six accused who are being held in Penza, three more people are being held in custody in St. Petersburg in the case of involvement in the Network. These are Viktor Filinkov and Igor Shishkin, in whom human rights activists found signs of torture. Yuli Boyarshinov, who was initially accused of illegal possession of explosives, is also in St. Petersburg. Later, he was demanded to testify against the defendants in the Network case and the same charges were brought against him.

In Penza, the court left in custody the accused in the Network case