Another person involved in the case against Ural anti-fascists spoke about torture

Anti-fascist Deniz Aydin, arrested in the case of a terrorist community and the manufacture of explosives, stated that torture was used against him on the day of his arrest. The “Tyumen Case” telegram channel talks about this with reference to lawyer Aydin.

The young man, like the rest of the defendants in the case, is currently being held in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in the Tyumen region. There his defense lawyer visited him and conducted a lawyer's interview with him. During the conversation, Aydin stated that during his detention he was subjected to severe torture and methods of intimidation. They demanded that he admit to participating in terrorist activities.

The Tyumenskoye Delo telegram channel is going to publish a transcript of the lawyer’s survey in the coming days.

At the beginning of September, mass searches of local anti-fascists took place in Tyumen, Surgut and Yekaterinburg, and six people were sent into custody. Four of them - Roman Paklin, Yuri Neznamov, Nikita Oleinik and Daniil Chertykov - spoke about the use of force against them even after their arrest. Anti-fascists were beaten, tortured with electric shock and water, and forced to squat and sing nationalist songs.

torture and violence became known According to one of the defendants in the case, Nikita Oleinik from Surgut, “created a terrorist community” because of “his hatred of the current government regime.” A case was opened against him under the article on the creation of a terrorist community (Part 1 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). A case was opened against the other five defendants - Daniil Chertykov, Deniz Aidyn, Kirill Brik, Yuri Neznamov and Roman Paklin - under the article on participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

versions of the investigation The investigation believes that Oleynik involved his friends in this group for a year in order to “carry out terrorist activities” in the Tyumen, Sverdlovsk regions and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

The investigation considers Brik and Aydin to be “manufacturers” of explosives, so they are also accused under the article on the manufacture of homemade explosives (Part 2 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code). Earlier there was information that during a search the young people were found with an improvised explosive device. According to investigators, the young people allegedly planned to test it in the area of ​​the Tyumen Thermal Power Plant.

DOXA Magazine has published a full transcript of Aydin’s interview with his lawyer Khalit Niyazov. In the text, the anti-fascist confirmed that on August 30, before his arrest, he and a friend were heading to a deserted wasteland to test an explosive mixture that they themselves had prepared out of curiosity. However, they had no intention of blowing up any buildings or engaging in terrorist activities, the young man claims.

22:55published In the evening they were taken to the police department located on the street. 30 years of Victory and began to interrogate. “I told them everything as it was, but they were not happy with it and they wanted to hear from me that we had a different goal, they said that we were not telling them the truth. Since I stood my ground, one of the employees who was sitting next to me hit me in the stomach and back of the head several times,” DOXA quotes the anti-fascist as saying.

After that, according to Aydin's story, he was forced to strip naked and put him on his haunches, after which they began to threaten him with sexualized violence using a baton and a stool leg. “At the same time, they put my shoe on my head and said that if the shoe fell, then violent actions would be used against me, involving the insertion of objects into my rectum,” says the detainee.

“After I squatted naked with a boot on my head, they took me to another office, where they demanded that I tell it like it is,” Aydin clarifies. — To which I replied that I told the truth. Then they put a bag on my head, as I described earlier, and threw it on the floor. At the same time, they twisted my arms back and struck me on the stomach and back of the head. The blows were not strong, but I was very scared.”

This lasted for about half an hour, with the security forces asking questions whether the detainees wanted to blow up trains and law enforcement buildings. As a result, the young man agreed to tell what the people who tortured him demanded of him.

• The anti-fascist community believes that young people are being persecuted primarily for their anti-authoritarian views, comparing what is happening with the Network case. According to the FSB, 11 young people from Penza and St. Petersburg were going to overthrow the government by creating the “Network” community for this purpose. Some defendants in the case alleged psychological pressure, electric shock, beatings and planted weapons. Some of them retracted the confessions they gave in the first days after the arrests. In 2020, the defendants in the case were sentenced to terms ranging from 3.5 to 18 years in prison. Penza St. Petersburg