{"id":258,"date":"2018-01-26T15:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-04-24T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T11:50:58","slug":"fil-tortures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rupression.com\/en\/2018\/01\/26\/fil-tortures\/","title":{"rendered":"Petersburg Anarchist Viktor Filinkov, Arrested in Terrorism Case, Says He Was Tortured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antifascist Viktor Filinkov, arrested for alleged involvement in a terrorist network, has told members of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) he was tortured, according to the PMC\u2019s report, which Mediazona<\/em> has in its possession.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to the PMC report, injuries \u201cinflicted in the last two or three days\u201d were discovered on Filinkov\u2019s body, including numerous traces of burns from an electric shocker all over his right thigh, a hematoma on his right ankle, and burns from an electric shocker on his thorax.<\/p>\n

Filinkov explained he suffered the injuries on January 24 in the car in which he was put by FSB officers after he was detained at Pulkovo Airport in Petersburg. The activist was then taken to the local Interior Ministry headquarters, and from there to a hospital. Filinkov was then driven into woodlands and held in the car for five hours.<\/p>\n

FSB officers were seated in the front of the car, according to Filinkov. The middle row of seats was occupied by a man wearing a mask, while Filinkov and another man wearing a mask sat in the back of the vehicle. The injuries were inflicted between seven and eight o\u2019clock in the morning.<\/p>\n

According to the PMC\u2019s report, \u201cThe FSB officers demanded that Filinkov confess, and having obtained his consent, they forced him to memorize the particular wording [of his confession].\u201d<\/p>\n

The masked men said very little, while the FSB officers threatened Filinkov that if he subsequently reneged on the confession, the beating they had given him would be a \u201clight version\u201d of the beating he would get later.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Filinkov signed a statement, addressed to the local Interior Ministry headquarters and the local FSB headquarters, in which he informed them of all the things he had been prompted to say. The FSB officers then demanded he not deny the statement in court, threatening to place him in a pretrial detention center with tuberculosis patients.<\/p>\n

The only things the masked men said were \u201cStop twitching!\u201d and \u201cWhat you shouting for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Filinkov was transferred to another car in the woodlands, a Lada Priora, and taken to the local Interior Ministry headquarters. According to Filinkov, the masked men seemed to know their way around the building, as if they had been there many times. They also discussed the fact they should keep their faces hidden because of the security cameras in the building.<\/p>\n

The PMC\u2019s report notes that the men wiped the blood off Filinkov\u2019s face with his own hat and with snow, and traces of bood were left on the hat. The leftist activist was also told that if he behaved badly, the FSB would \u201cget to\u201d his wife \u201ceven in Kyiv.\u201d<\/p>\n

On January 24, Filinkov\u2019s wife told<\/a> OVD Info<\/em>\u00a0her husband had disappeared on his way to Petersburg\u2019s Pulkovo Airport. The antifascist was scheduled to fly to Kyiv at eight o\u2019clock in the evening on January 23. The last time they communicated that day was three o\u2019clock in the afternoon, when Filinkov texted his wife that he was headed to the airport and would text her again after he arrived there.<\/p>\n

On January 25, it transpired that the Dzerzhinsky District Court in Petersburg had remanded Filinkov to police custody for two months on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist network (per Article 205.4 Part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code). According to police investigators, Filinikov and unidentified persons who \u201csupported the anarchist ideology\u201d were branch members of a terrorist network whose purpose was to engage in terrorist activities, propaganda, and justification of terrorism.<\/p>\n

Today, the wife of another Petersburg antifascist, Igor Shishkin, reported<\/a> he was missing. Shishkin went missing after his home was searched and he was taken away by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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