A check has begun in the pre-trial detention center due to a meeting between Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the “Penza case”, and Rossiya-24 employees.

In Penza, a check was launched in pre-trial detention center No. 1 due to the access of employees of the Rossiya-24 TV channel to the accused in the “Penza case,” reports 7x7 with reference to the response of judge of the Central District Military Court Yuri Klubkov to an editorial request.

journalists 7x7 sent the judge a request for an interview with the accused Ilya Shakursky the day after the channel’s employees visited the detention center. Klubkov wrote a refusal against him and reminded that before the consideration of the appeal against the verdict, the opportunity to visit the convicts is provided only to their relatives and only with the permission of the presiding judge.

Klubkov also said that the court did not allow the channel’s employees to meet with Shakursky in the pre-trial detention center.

February 20 in the program “Vesti. Duty Unit” an interview with Shakursky was published . “This is the first meeting with journalists after the verdict,” the announcer insisted. The story included only Shakursky’s words that he did not agree with the verdict.

Lawyer Sergei Morgunov said that his client was taken into the investigation room, where the channel’s employees were already waiting. Journalists began to ask Shakursky about the “manifesto,” but he refused to answer their questions without a lawyer.

“Even an investigator cannot meet with a convicted person without the consent of the court; the special unit of the pre-trial detention center simply will not allow this,” he is indignant in a conversation with 7x7 . “And then the journalists calmly came in and calmly met.”

On February 10, Shakursky and six other anti-fascists and anarchists were sentenced to terms ranging from six to 18 years on charges of participating in the “Network terrorist community.” The defendants insisted that they confessed under torture and later retracted them.