Participants in a picket in support of those involved in the “Penza case” were detained in Moscow

Participants in a rally in support of those involved in the “Penza case” were detained in the center of Moscow. This was reported by OVD-Info.

According to Libertarian Party spokesman Alexander Good, police detained three people. First, Mikhail Shulyaev for refusing to present his passport. After him, two more members of the decision makers were detained - Alexey Tarasov and Timur Naumov. As security officials explain in a video published by Good, the activists were detained for “deceiving a citizen who was detained because of this.”

According to OVD-Info, the police also detained Anton Grachev, an activist of the St. Petersburg “Bessrochka” movement.

The day before, on February 10, the Volga District Military Court sentenced the defendants in the “Penza case” to terms ranging from six to 18 years in prison.

Updated at 19:16: Information about the arrest of Grachev has been added.

Penza case

The criminal case against the “terrorist community “Network”” was opened by the FSB in October 2017. Then, within a month, Zorin, Shakursky, Kuksov, Pchelintsev, Chernov and Sagynbaev were detained in Penza (the latter was found by security forces in St. Petersburg and transported to Penza). Two Penza residents - Ivankin and Kulkov - fled and were put on the wanted list; On July 6, 2018, it became known that they were detained in Moscow, taken to Penza and arrested. In January 2018, Viktor Filinkov and Igor Shishkin were detained in St. Petersburg in connection with the same case. On April 11, charges were brought against another St. Petersburg resident, Yuli Boyarshinov.

Most of the defendants in the case are anti-fascists and anarchists; Many detainees are also united by their passion for airsoft.

Relatives of the Penza defendants in the case said that during their arrest they were planted with weapons and then tortured. spoke in detail about torture Viktor Filinkov , Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky . In September, Arman Sagynbaev said that he confessed under torture. torture . reported Already in court , another defendant, Andrei Chernov,

also reported on the interrogation with the use of a stun gun Ilya Kapustin , who was released as a witness, - fearing for his safety, he, like Filinkov’s wife Alexandra , went to Finland and received political asylum there.

Pchelintsev and Shakursky said that FSB officers tortured them with electric shocks in the basement of the Penza pre-trial detention center. Shishkin did not report torture, but doctors diagnosed him with a fracture of the lower wall of the orbit, numerous hematomas and abrasions, and members of the Public Monitoring Committee who visited Shishkin in the pre-trial detention center recorded numerous marks on his body similar to burns from electrical wires. In addition, the accused Yuliy Boyarshinov spent several months in the “press huts” of pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the Leningrad region. There he was beaten several times.

The Investigative Committee ignored all the complaints of the defendants in the case regarding torture. So, in the case of Filinkov, the investigator decided that the FSB officers beat him with a stun gun legally, and the marks on Kapustin’s body were not from the stun gun, but from bedbug bites .

One of the defendants in the case, anti-fascist Igor Shishkin, has already received 3.5 years in prison. He fully admitted his guilt, signed an agreement to cooperate with the investigation and testified against the other defendants. The case against another defendant, Yegor Zorin, was dropped in September 2018. He also testified against other defendants, after which he was released under house arrest.

In the spring, the Moscow District Military Court began to consider the merits of the case of Filinkov and Boyarshinov at mobile sessions in St. Petersburg.