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Antifascist Viktor Filinkov, accused of participation in the terrorist

community, was tortured. This follows from the conclusion of the Public

Monitoring Commission of St. Petersburg (body controling observance of

human rights in detention facilities), which visited a young man in

SIZO-3 (detention center) . The conclusion is available at the editors

of OVD-Info.

Commission members recorded numerous traces of burns from a Taser in the

chest area, as well as across the entire surface of the right thigh and

hematoma on the right ankle. According to Filinkov, he had received

these injuries on January 24 in a car (blue Volkswagen), in which he was

put by FSB officers after being detained at the Pulkovo airport. From

there he was taken to the police department of the Krasnogvardeysky

district, and then to hospital No. 26.

From the hospital, Filinkov was taken into the forests, where masked

people beat him for five hours. During the beating, FSB officers

demanded from Filinkov to confess. After he agreed, they forced him to

learn precise formulations. Filinkov was threatened that this beating to

be “an easy version of what will happen next” if he refused. This words

of the activist mentioned in the conclusion of the Public Monitoring

Commission (PMC). Masked people were saying only “Stay quiet!” and

“Don’t yell!”.

Filinkov wrote explanatory notes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs

(police) and the FSB, where he gave the learned “testimonies”. As stated

in the commission’s document, the young man was threatened if he retract

this testimony, he will be placed in a cell with prisoners suffer from

tuberculosis.

Then Filinkov was transferred to another car – Lada Priora – and

delivered to the Regional Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As

explained by arrested activist, people in masks were well -oriented in

the building, and discussed that they “need to close their face, because

of video-cameras”.

After all, he was taken to search of apartment where he lived with his

neighbor. The neighbor was also threatened, that “everything will be all

right” if he tell “what he knows”. Filinkov has very noticeable red

handcuff marks on his hands, stated in the conclusion of the PMC members.

Blood was wiped off from the beaten activist with snow and his hat, that

remained with the young man. Members of the PMC printed blood traces

from the hat on the interview notes.

On January 23, Viktor Filinkov disappeared on his way to the Pulkovo

airport. His wife suspected that he could be detained by secret

services. A few months ago, they thought they were being watched.

On January 25, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested

Filinkov for two months. He is suspected of participation in the

terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

According to the investigation, “Filinkov and other unidentified

persons, sharing the anarchist ideology, took part in the division of

the terrorist community in order to carry out terrorist activities,

propaganda, justification and support of terrorism.” The report says

that the left activist made confessions.

The text has been translated to english from https://ovdinfo.org/express-news/2018/01/26/antifashist-arestovannyy-po-delu-o-terrorizme-zayavil-o-pytkah?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push