The city court of St. Petersburg extended the arrest of Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the Network case, until March 22, 2019. about this in his telegram channel. writes The United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg
According to the press service, the investigator told the court that Filinkov should familiarize himself with eight more volumes of the criminal case out of 17. In addition, he said that Filinkov does not testify and does not admit his guilt.
In turn, Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, told the court that his client was ready to testify. But only to those investigators who did not torture Filinkov.
UPD 15:58 Yulia Boyarshinova was detained until March 22, a member of OVD-Info said from the courtroom.
- in the Network case 11 young people in St. Petersburg and Penza are involved . According to the FSB, they participated in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). Law enforcers believe that community members were preparing terrorist attacks in Russia in order to raise an armed rebellion. The defendants in the case spoke about psychological pressure, torture with electric current, hanging upside down and weapons that the FSB officers planted on them.
- Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov was detained on January 23 at Pulkovo airport. Then the FSB officers took him for a medical examination, and then drove him around the forest belt in a car for several hours and under torture forced him to learn the wording of the confession by heart, said Filinkov . Three days later, the members of the Public Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg managed to fix numerous burn marks from a stun gun on his body.