The Moscow District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in St. Petersburg, refused to allow Network figure Yuli Boyarshinov to consider his case in a special manner and did not separate him into separate proceedings. A member of a support group for those involved in the case reported this from the courtroom.
OVD-Info Also, lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov said that the next court hearings of Boyarshinov and Viktor Filinkov will be held in the open. “The judge said that the consideration of the case on its merits will take place in the open, which suits us very much. That is why we published all the materials of the case. Meetings will be held daily, that is, the court will try to consider the case promptly,” Cherkasov said.
Boyarshinov about considering his case in a special manner. He admitted guilt, but did not make a plea deal. The court considered that a guilty plea was not sufficient for a special order.
petitioned - The investigation believes that the “Network” is a terrorist organization, the cells of which allegedly exist in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. In total, 11 anarchists and anti-fascists from St. Petersburg and Penza are involved in the case. According to the prosecution, community members were preparing terrorist attacks in Russia in order to raise an armed rebellion. - The person involved in the case, Igor Shishkin, entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. He has already been sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony. verdict - The defendants in the Network case talked about psychological pressure, electric shock torture and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. Some of them confessed and gave them under torture. refused reported