Two more activists were fined for meeting outside the court on the day of the verdict in the St. Petersburg Network case

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined Anna Loiko and Konstantin Pokhilchuk because of the meeting at the courthouse, where the verdict was announced for the defendants in the St. Petersburg “Network” case. This is reported by “Apology of Protest”.

The court found Loiko and Pokhilchuk guilty of violating the “self-isolation regime” and imposed a fine of ten thousand rubles each. The activists were defended by Apology of Protest lawyers Alexander Peredruk and Daniil Semenov.

Anna Loiko and Konstantin Pokhilchuk were fined again . Previously, the St. Petersburg City Court canceled the fines and returned the cases for a new trial along with the cases of many other detainees on June 22. The district court again issued indictments, as in the case of human rights activist Yana Teplitskaya .

• In St. Petersburg, on June 22, the verdict was announced for the defendants in the “Network” case, Viktor Filinkov and Yuli Boyarshinov. They were sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison, respectively. After the trial, security forces began to detain people who came to support the accused. There were thirty detainees, we published the list.
• 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. The defendants in the case spoke 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.
• On February 10, 2020, a court in Penza announced the verdict of seven defendants in the case of the local Network cell. The young people received sentences ranging from 6 to 18 years in a strict and general regime colony. The appeal court upheld the conviction in October.