A person involved in the Network case was denied compensation for improper conditions in a pre-trial detention center

The Lomonosovsky District Court in St. Petersburg refused to award monetary compensation to Yuli Boyarshinov, a defendant in the “Network” case, for improper conditions of detention in Detention Center No. 6 in Gorelovo. This was reported by the RUPRESSION telegram channel.

Yuliy Boyarshinov and the second person involved in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, Viktor Filinkov, are currently in pre-trial detention center-3 on Shpalernaya.

The authors clarify that Boyarshinov has been denied compensation for the second time. The defense plans to appeal the decision again.

• 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.
• On June 22, 2020, Filinkov and Boyarshinov, defendants in the St. Petersburg “Network” case , were found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). Filinkov was sentenced to seven, Boyarshinov to five and a half years in a general regime colony. On April 29, 2021, the appellate court upheld Filinkov’s sentence and reduced Boyarshinov’s sentence by three months. Another person involved in the St. Petersburg case, Igor Shishkin, was sentenced in January 2019 to three and a half years in a general regime colony. Shishkin testified against other defendants.
• On February 10, 2020, a court in Penza announced the verdict of seven defendants in the Network case. The young people received sentences ranging from 6 to 18 years in a general and strict regime colony.
• Those accused in the Network case, including Filinkov and Boyarshinov, 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. Filinkov was diagnosed with an intervertebral hernia in the pre-trial detention center. Boyarshinovtold Mediazona that when he moved in, he was beaten and subsequently beaten several more times, threatened with rape, and for refusing to communicate with FSB officers without a lawyer, he was forced to do squats 1,000 times. During the trial, he admitted guilt. Igor Shishkin did not report torture, but members of the Public Monitoring Commission recorded injuries on his body.