Prisoners of the Mordovian colony No. 17 of the strict regime were recruited into the Wagner PMC. The mother of the defendant in the case of the «terrorist community «Network»» wrote about this on Facebook. Ilya Shakursky Elena. The anti-fascist is serving his sentence in this colony.
Shakurskaya said that her son contacted her on September 26 for the first time in 11 days. The administration of the colony said that the payphone was broken, but at that time, Wagner PMC recruiters arrived at the institution. publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />«»Me will they torture you?» He nodded.» Anti-fascist Ilya Shakursky, accused of creating a «terrorist community», spoke in court
“No pressure was exerted on Ilya and they were not isolated from the rest of the prisoners. I think it makes no sense to write about his reaction to the call to participate in hostilities in exchange for freedom — everyone knows and understands Ilya's attitude to such things. As a result, about a hundred people, including foreign citizens, left the colony together with the PMC,” Shakurskaya wrote.
She also spoke about the deteriorating health of her son, who was diagnosed with chronic gastritis, osteochondrosis of the spine in the stage of unstable remission and arthrosis of the knee joint.
Shakursky is serving 16 years in prison in the case of organizing the terrorist community «Network» (part 1 of the article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). He, like other defendants in the case, said that the FSB officers tortured him for the sake of confessing.
Penza case
Criminal case about the «terrorist community «Network»» was initiated by the FSB in October 2017. Then, within a month, Zorin, Shakursky, Kuksov, Pchelintsev, Chernov and Sagynbaev were detained in Penza (the security forces found the latter in St. Petersburg and transferred to Penza). Two Penza residents — Ivankin and Kulkov — disappeared 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 the same case. On April 11, charges were filed against another Petersburger, Yuliy 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 the arrest they planted weapons on them, and then tortured them. Victor Filinkov, Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky spoke in detail about torture. In September, Arman Sagynbayev said he confessed under torture. Already in court, another defendant, Andrey Chernov, reported torture.
Ilya Kapustin also reported about the interrogation with the use of a stun gun, who was released as a witness — fearing for his safety, he, like Filinkov's wife Alexandra, left for 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 eye socket, numerous bruises and abrasions, and PMC members who visited Shishkin in the pre-trial detention center recorded numerous marks on his body that looked like burns from electrical wires. In addition, the accused Yuliy Boyarshinov spent several months in the “press huts” of SIZO-6 in the Leningrad Region. There he was beaten several times.
The Investigative Committee ignored all the complaints of the defendants in the case of 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 shocker, from bedbug bites.
One of the defendants in the case, anti-fascist Igor Shishkin, received 3.5 year of the colony. He fully admitted his guilt, signed an agreement on cooperation with the investigation and testified against other defendants. In the summer, Shishkin was released, left Russia and told Mediazona about the torture after his arrest in January 2018.
The case against another defendant, Yegor Zorin, was dismissed 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 terms from 6 to 18 years in prison. In June, Filinkov and Boyarshinov were sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison.