The defendants in the case of the terrorist community “Network”, Yulia Boyarshinov and Igor Shishkin, were taken to pre-trial detention center No. 3 of St. Petersburg on Shpalernaya Street. Member of the Public Monitoring Commission Ekaterina Kosarevskaya reported this to OVD-Info.

Another person involved in the Network case, Viktor Filinkov, was in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Nizhny Novgorod on October 9; his whereabouts are now unknown.

Yuli Boyarshinov, Igor Shishkin and Viktor Filinkov were taken from the pre-trial detention center in the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg at the end of July to carry out investigative actions in Penza, where the accused ended up only at the end of August. The journey back also took a month.

According to investigators, “Network” is a terrorist organization, which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. In total, 11 anarchists and anti-fascists from St. Petersburg and Penza are involved in the case. Law enforcement officers believe that community members were preparing terrorist attacks in Russia in order to stir up an armed rebellion.
The defendants in the Network case talked about psychological pressure, electric shock torture and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. Some of them refused to confess and said that they gave them under torture.
After Yuliy Boyarshinov refused to testify, he was transferred to the Gorelovo pre-trial detention center in the Leningrad region. His lawyer called the conditions in the cell torture. Boyarshinov was kept in the Gorelovo pre-trial detention center for several months.

Those involved in the “Network” case were taken to pre-trial detention center No. 3 in St. Petersburg