Vicious circle

The parents of the defendants in the "Penza case" complained to the president about the torture of their children by the FSB, but the appeal was forwarded to the security forces themselves

After the discussion of the Network case at a meeting of the Human Rights Council with the participation of Vladimir Putin, the parents of the accused wrote a letter to the presidential administration complaining about the torture of their children by the FSB.

As Kommersant writes, the authors of the letter report that the reason “for the arrest of the guys in Penza was the weapon planted by the FSB officers,” the criminal case is built “on the testimony obtained under the most severe torture,” which the detainees were “forced to memorize by the FSB officers.” They ask “to give authority to study and draw up a certificate on the case as an independent expert in the past to the investigator for especially important cases, member of the Human Rights Council Evgeny Myslovsky.”

In response to the letter, the presidential administration informed its authors that the complaint had been registered and sent for a substantive response to the FSB, "whose competence includes resolving the issue raised by them." The decision to be taken by the FSB “can be appealed to the court or administratively,” the notice says.

In the case of the "Network" are 11 people who, according to investigators, participated in the terrorist community. They allegedly prepared an armed uprising and explosions during the presidential elections and the World Cup. The defendants in the case stated that they were forced to confess by torture. At a meeting of the Human Rights Council on December 11, Putin promised to "sort it out," saying that the information about torture "really worries him," "this is absolutely unacceptable," and "needs to work."