Persons involved in the “Network” case were taken from the Yaroslavl pre-trial detention center

UPD On August 16, Viktor Filinkov told Nizhny Novgorod lawyer Alexei Matasov that Igor Shishkin was left in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yaroslavl.

The defendants in the “Network” case, Viktor Filinkov, Yuli Boyarshinov and Igor Shishkin, were taken from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yaroslavl. The Yaroslavl branch of the Sitting Rus' project reported this to OVD-Info.

It is still unknown where the accused were escorted.

On July 25, it became known that Filinkov, Boyarshinov and Shishkin were taken from the pre-trial detention center of the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg to Yaroslavl.

Lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov reported that for the first day after being escorted, Victor was kept in the transit department - pigs are also kept in this building. There was an “indescribable stench” there, Cherkasov relayed the words of his client.

Filinkov was transferred to a special unit of the pre-trial detention center, where besides him there were four more people. When he demanded that the required two-hour walk be provided, the detention center employee told his cellmate that Filinkov’s glasses should be broken for such demands.

Later, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg, Yana Teplitskaya, said that in the pre-trial detention center Viktor is not given medications - the administration has “a special instruction “not to take medications for Filinkov.” Victor has serious problems with his liver and stomach; osteochondrosis and psoriasis have worsened.

On July 16, information appeared that Boyarshinova and Filinkova were going to be transferred to Penza to conduct investigative actions.

Earlier, Filinkov said that one of the FSB officers who tortured him threatened that if he refused to confess, the anti-fascist would go to another region “in a car with specialists.”

• Nine young people in Penza and St. Petersburg are accused in the Network case. According to the FSB, they participated in a terrorist organization and were allegedly preparing for the outbreak of unrest in the country. The defendants in the case spoke about psychological pressure, electric shock torture, hanging upside down and weapons that FSB officers planted on them.
• Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov was arrested in January. He admitted guilt, but later stated that he did it under torture. Members of the Public Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg recorded numerous traces of burns from a stun gun on the anti-fascist’s body. 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. Another person arrested in St. Petersburg, Yuli Boyarshinov, is in a cell with 115 places, where 150 people are being held. Boyarshinov's lawyer considers the conditions in the cell to be torture.
• One of the witnesses in the case in St. Petersburg, Ilya Kapustin, also spoke about torture. He was forced to leave Russia and asked for political asylum in Finland.
• On July 5, two more defendants in the case were arrested in Penza - Mikhail Kulkov and Maxim Ivankin. They were accused of preparing for the production or sale of drugs on a large scale (clause "d" of Part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code). Before this, the young people were detained in March 2017 along with anti-fascist Alexei Poltavets and accused of drug possession. According to Poltavets, after their arrest they were tortured and beaten, demanding to testify against their friends from the anti-fascist environment.