The accused in the case of the Network Community Dmitry Pchelintsev announced that he was fastened with handcuffs to a hot battery while familiarizing themselves with the case file. Other accused in the Penza case also applied such torture, reports Mediazon.
Pchelintsev claims that when familiarizing himself with the documents, he discovered a "specific chronology in the narrative." The accused asked to bring other volumes of the criminal case. The investigator accused him of trying to delay the acquaintance and demanded to fasten Pchelintsev to the battery. The accused claims to be asked law enforcement officers to treat him humanly. For this, he was allegedly sent to read the volume of business in the basement and assigned "" Special Forces, who took part in torture three times. "
On December 1, Pchelintsev announced a hunger strike after he was placed in a punishment cell allegedly for violating the regime.
In the fall of 2017, seven antifaches were arrested in Penza, in early 2018, two more were sent in St. Petersburg. According to the investigation, the anti -fascists created the group "Network", the purpose of which was supposedly "terrorist activities, propaganda, as well as the justification and support of terrorism." The arrested activists reported on the application of torture and forced to give false testimonies.
Relatives of the accused in the case of the "network", as well as in the case of the opposition organization "New Greatness", demand to stop the pursuit of activists. They insist that both cases fabricated law enforcement agencies.