A lawyer was not allowed into the prison hospital to see Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the Network case.

In St. Petersburg, lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov was not allowed into the prison hospital to see his client, Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the “Network” case. MBKH Media writes about this with reference to Cherkasov.

“I have been denied access for the second day, although I am already referring to laws that prohibit interfering with the communication of a client with a defense lawyer, even at the stage of the client in the infectious diseases department,” Cherkasov told the publication.

Filinkov was hospitalized on November 5 due to suspected jaundice. On October 30, the day of remembrance of the victims of political repression, he went on a hunger strike in a pre-trial detention center as a sign of solidarity with political prisoners.

November 8 No lawyer has been allowed to see Viktor Filinkov for four days, reports the RUPRESSION telegram channel.

• According to investigators, “Network” is a terrorist organization, which allegedly has cells in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Penza and Belarus. In total, 11 anarchists and anti-fascists from St. Petersburg and Penza are involved in the case. The investigation believes that community members were preparing terrorist attacks in Russia in order to raise an armed rebellion. The defendants in the Network case talked about psychological pressure, electric shock torture and weapons that FSB officers planted on them. Some of them refused to confess and said that they gave them under torture.
• Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov was arrested in January. He admitted guilt, but later stated that he did it under torture. Members of the Public Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg recorded numerous traces of burns from a stun gun on the anti-fascist’s body. Victor said that one of the FSB officers who tortured him threatened that if he refused to confess, the anti-fascist would go to another region “in a car with specialists.”