Anti-fascist Shishkin, convicted in the Penza case, was released from prison

Igor Shishkina, convicted in the Penza case, was released from the colony. His brother Andrei Shishkin told Mediazona about this.

In June, the Valdai District Court of the Novgorod Region upheld the claim of correctional colony No. 4 and placed the anti-fascist under administrative supervision for a period of eight years. The convicted person is prohibited from leaving his place of residence at night, traveling outside a certain territory and attending public events.

In January 2019, the Moscow District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in St. Petersburg, sentenced Shishkin to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of participating in prohibited activities (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

Shishkin’s case was considered in a special manner, he fully admitted his guilt and entered into a pre-trial agreement to cooperate with the investigation.

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 .

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 early February, seven defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”” received sentences ranging from 6 to 18 years in prison.