Boyarshinov\u2019s custody hearing was held in open chambers for ten minutes or so, before the court granted the police investigator\u2019s motion to hear the case in closed chambers. Two reporters and a member of the Human Rights Council, who had been admitted into the courtroom, had to go back out into the corridor, where the other thirty people who had attempted to attend the hearing and had not been admitted to the courtroom were writing complaints about their not having been admitted.<\/p>\n Court bailiffs stood in front of the closed courtroom door, apparently defending it from attack by the indignant crowd. When asked by reporters why they were not being allowed in the courtroom, their only replies were \u201cNo comment\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t provoke us.\u201d<\/p>\n However, even the reporters admitted into the courtroom found it hard to sit down. For the latest hearing in the high-profile \u201ccase of the antifascists\u201d the authorities chose a tiny room with a single bench for the public that, in fact, could accommodate no more than three people.<\/p>\n Soon after the hearing was closed to the public and reporters, the accused man\u2019s father and mother, Nikolai Boyarshinov and Tatyana Kopylova, were summoned one after the other into the courtroom to give testimony.<\/p>\n When he exited the courtroom, Boyarshinov\u2019s father, barely holding back his tears, talked to reporters.<\/p>\n \u201cI told the court I knew my son well and was certain not only he had not done anything bad but also had not planned to do anything bad. There were questions about his vices. I said he had never drunk or smoked. There were questions about his job. I said Yuli had a steady job, and thanks to it we made ends meet. My wife and I are artists, and lately we have had hardly any commissions. He took care of us,\u201d said Nikolai Boyashinov.<\/p>\n After reporters finished talking with him, two friends of his son approached Nikolai Boyarshinov.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are really glad to meet you. Hang in there. Everything will be fine,\u201d they told Boyarshinov\u2019s father.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, I\u2019m now often asked about Yuli\u2019s friends, but I\u2019m sure he wouldn\u2019t bother handing out with bad people. If he is friends with people, they\u2019re good people,\u201d Nikolai Boyarshinov said to them.<\/p>\n When she exited the courtroom, Tatyana Kopylova reported that she had been asked similar questions.<\/p>\n \u201cI was asked about his hobbies. I said he enjoyed traveling and reading. I was asked about his job. I said he was an industrial climber and he had been helping us out a lot. I also said my mother\u2019s heart could not stand this worry. The press has informed me that some guys named Kostik, Dima, and Gennady Belyayev had been visiting him and threatening him. [Ms. Kopylova means an\u00a0article<\/a> in <\/em>Novaya Gazeta in which it had been reported Boyarshinov had been visited by FSB officers who threatened him\u2014Editor.]<\/em> When I go to sleep I think about how Yuli\u2019s night will pass. Why have these people been intimidating Yuli? As it is, the remand prison in Gorelovo is a torture chamber and a cesspool, where all the regulations are violated,\u201d said Tatyana Kopylova.<\/p>\n According to her, Boyarshinov was being deliberately held in poor conditions to extort him into testifying. She also added the cells in Remand Prison No. 6 were so overcrowded her son had had to sleep on the floor, and when he had caught cold he did not receive proper medical treatment.<\/p>\n Yuli Boyarshinov was apprehended on January 21, 2018, several days earlier than the other two Petersburgers accused of involvement in The Network, Viktor Filinkov<\/a> and Igor Shishkin. However, Boyarshinov was initially charged<\/a> only with illegal possession of explosives (Article 222.1 Part 1 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code): police found 400 grams of smoke powder, ordinarily employed in the production of fireworks, in the young man\u2019s backpack during a random ID check. He was charged with involvement in a terrorist community (Article 205.4 Part 2 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code) only on April 11, 2018.<\/p>\n The particulars of the new charge are unknown: Boyarshinov\u2019s defense attorney, Olga Krivonos, has signed a nondisclosure agreement regarding the preliminary investigation. The other young men caught up in the case, including Filinkov and witness Ilya Kapustin, have alleged they were tortured into testifying. Members of the Public Monitoring Commission<\/a> also reported<\/a> bruises, a fracture, and burns on Igor Shishkin\u2019s body.<\/p>\n After the court issued its ruling, Boyarshinov was escorted into the corridor, where Ms. Kopylova turned to the court bailiff maintaining order there.<\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t seen my son or heard his voice for three months. Could I go up to him and give him a quick hug?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n The bailiff did not bother with procedural subtleties.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll open fire and shoot to kill,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n Twenty minutes later, the prisoner escort guards made the exact same threats to the accused\u2019s friends, who had gathered in the yard of the courthouse to see their comrade one more time. A police escort guard officer did not like the fact some of the young people had cameras. On several occasions he announced either that everyone was too close to the police truck or he could see the people who had gathered were hiding next to the courtroom\u2019s porch. For these offenses, he claimed he was willing to resort to the harshest measures, but push did not come to shove.<\/p>\n His friends greeted Yuli Boyarshinov with a round of applause. He was able to flash them a smile before he was put into the paddy wagon for the trip back to the remand prison.<\/p>\n P.S. As Boyarshinov\u2019s custody extension hearing was underway in Krasnoye Selo, police were searching the flat<\/a> once occupied by Ilya Kapustin in the city\u2019s Central District. Interrogated as a witness in The Network case, Kapustin alleged he had been tortured and applied for political asylum in Finland<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"DSCN0951.JPG](\"https:\/\/www.zaks.ru\/f\/2018\/aprel\/19%2004\/DSCN0951.JPG\")
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