The operatives demanded that Kostylenkov, a defendant in the “New Greatness” case, refuse a lawyer and give a confession.
Ruslan Kostylenkov, a defendant in the “New Greatness” case, who is in pretrial detention center No. 3, was visited by two operatives who beat him during a search on March 15, Svetlana Sidorkina, a lawyer for the international human rights group “Agora,” told OVD-Info. According to her, this happened two days ago; the defendant was required to renounce his defense and also give a confession. “They told him by order that he should give up on me. So that he gets ready.