Sagynbaev, a defendant in the Penza “Network” case, was diagnosed with tuberculosis

In the Penza pre-trial detention center, the defendant in the “Network” case, Arman Sagynbaev, who was sentenced to six years in prison, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to Sagynbaev’s mother Elena Strigina.

“Initially, they took sputum from my son. And last week we took him for fluorography and confirmed closed-type tuberculosis of the right lung in the area of ​​the shoulder blades. It seems that during the sputum examination, the diagnosis was known, but nothing was told to him,” the newspaper reports the mother’s words.

Earlier, tuberculosis was also discovered in another person involved in the Network case, Vasily Kuksov. The disease was discovered only in December last year, although Kuksov had been complaining about health problems for several months. Strigina noted that she wrote appeals to the Ombudsman for the Penza region regarding Kuksov’s health, but they did not respond properly.

• On February 10, 2020, a court in Penza announced the verdict to those accused of creating the “terrorist community “Network”; the defendants in the case received sentences of up to 18 years.
• The defendants in the case, including Shakursky, Pchelintsev, Chernov and Sagynbaev, alleged psychological pressure, electric shock, beatings and planted weapons. Some of them retracted the confessions they gave in the first days after the arrests. OVD-Info spoke in detail about each person involved in the case.
• A criminal case against the “terrorist community “Network” was opened in October 2017. According to the FSB, 11 young people in Penza and St. Petersburg organized the terrorist community “Network” and were planning to overthrow the government.