Lawyer: Kaliningrad anarchist interrogated for 36 hours and beaten

Maria Bontzler, a lawyer for Kaliningrad anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev, against whom a case was opened for publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet, spoke about the beating of her client. Open Russia human rights manager Valentina Dekhtyarenko reported this on her Telegram channel.

Bonzler claims that Lukichev was beaten by six riot police officers. She noted that law enforcement officers specifically did this so that there would be no traces left on the anarchist’s body. According to Bonzler, the beating took place on November 4, immediately after Lukichev’s arrest; an appointed lawyer was present in the room at that moment.

In addition, Bonzler stated that the interrogation of Lukichev lasted 36 hours.

24-year-old anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev is suspected of publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to the publication of a screenshot of a suicide note left by the person who carried out the explosion in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB department. The investigation believes that Lukichev published a message on the Prometheus telegram channel in which he called a hero the teenager who committed a terrorist attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. At the court hearing, Bonzler stated that the phrase in the post was taken out of context.

• On the morning of October 31, a 17-year-old local resident allegedly detonated a bomb in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk. Three employees were injured, the young man himself died. A few minutes before the explosion, a message about the attack appeared in the telegram open chat of “Rebel Rebel”. A criminal case has been opened regarding a terrorist attack.
• After this, activists from Perm , Krasnodar , Arkhangelsk and the Arkhangelsk region spoke about police visits and calls to departments in connection with the explosion in the FSB building. On November 3, in Sochi, the second secretary of the Komsomol city committee, Danil Pinzhenin, was searched in connection with the incident.