“They Said They Could Break My Legs and Dump Me in the Woods.” Petersburger Ilya Kapustin Recounts How FSB Officers Tortured Him Yegor Skovoroda Mediazona January 27, 2018 Traces of handcuffs on Ilya Kapustin’s hands. Photo courtesy of his attorney and Mediazona This week, FSB officers searched the homes of several Petersburg antifascists and anarchists. The […]
Tag: Saint-Petersburg
Breaking Bad with the FSB
The FSB Breaks Left A second anarchist from the mythical organization Network (Set) has been remanded to police custody at the request of counterintelligence. Viktor Filinkov and Igor Shiskin are suspected of planning an armed insurrection to seize power Alexander Yermakov Fontanka.ru January 27, 2018 The purge of the anarchist movement in Petersburg is due […]
Support anarchist and antifa prisoners in St.Petersburg!
Fundraising for lawyers working on cases about police raids and arrests of anarchists and antifascists in St. Petersburg ans Penza, Russia has begun. At the moment 2 people in St. Petersburg and 5 people in Penza are arrested, more are connected to the case as witnesses. Continuation of raids and repressions is highly possible. They are […]
Arrests and searches in regard to anarchists and antifascists in St.Petersburg
On January 23 antifascists Viktor Filinkov was kidnapped at the airport in St. Petersburg and was found two days later in a special detention facility of FSB. He claimed to have been tortured by masked police and forced to give evidence in a terrorist case against himself. On January 25 another activist, Igor Shishkin, was […]
Anti-fascist arrested with regard to case on terrorism, informed about tortures
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 […]