Judge Alisher Larin of the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow said at a hearing in the case of Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin that the investigation “has no reliable data” about his detention abroad. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.
“If the defense has any documents relating to the circumstances of the detention, in addition to those available in the case…” Judge Larin concludes the discussion. The defense doesn't respond to this.
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Earlier, the activist said that on the night of October 17, he was detained in Bishkek by officers of the State Committee for National Security, the special services of Kyrgyzstan, and then brought to the airport. For some time, the activist was left handcuffed in the car. The State Committee for National Security operatives returned with two employees of the line department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Taganskaya metro station. In addition, three FSB officers came to pick up the activist.
At a meeting on November 28, Skoryakin said that on November 17 he arrived at Moscow Domodedovo airport. There, the activist was placed in a “room without windows or cameras,” where, as he himself told his lawyer, three FSB officers beat him with their fists, demanding to unlock his phone and laptop.
Then Skoryakin was taken to the line police department at the Taganskaya station, where he sat until almost midnight. After this, Skoryakin was taken to pre-trial detention center-7 Kapotnya, which Grigoriev’s lawyer calls a “transfer point.” Skoryakin assures that, with the exception of the episode at Domodedovo, violence was no longer used against him. According to the activist, there was no torture either.
In Russia, Skoryakin and another activist, Ruslan Abasov, are accused in a criminal case of group hooliganism with the use of weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to an action against political repression and violations by law enforcement officers in Moscow on “Chekist Day” in December 2021. Abasov is also charged with vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). Both managed to leave the country, after which the activists were put on the wanted list.
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