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Saint Petersburg, Russia: “We Can Dance If We Want To” – Sentencing of the ‘Network Case’ Defendants
Jenya Kulakova Facebook June 22, 2020 His hands trembling and sounding breathless, Judge Muranov sentenced Vitya [Viktor Filinkov] to 7 years and Julian [Yuli Boyarshinov] to 5 1/2 years in prison. He read out the date of Vitya’s ACTUAL arrest, that is, a day … Continue reading
Saint Petersburg, Russia: ‘Network Case’ Trial – Closing Statements by Defendants
The Penza Case in Petersburg: Closing Statements Mediazona June 18, 2020 The trial of the “Network terrorist community,” whose alleged members have been charged with violating Article 205.4.2 of the Criminal Code, is winding down in Petersburg. The Second Western Military District … Continue reading
Russia: Parents Demand Release of Network Defendants Due to Coronavirus
Parents Demand Release of Network Defendants from Remand Prison Due to Coronavirus Ekaterina Malysheva 7X7 April 1, 2020 Parents of the young men convicted in the Penza portion of the Network Case have demanded their children be transferred to house arrest due … Continue reading
Melbourne, Australia: Action for the Week of Solidarity with Russian Anarchist & Antifascist Prisoners
Received on 03.02.2020: Twice this week those living and working at the Russian ethnic representative council of Victoria awoke to find their building covered in posters and paint. Nothing particularly unusual for inner city walls in Melbourne, but these were … Continue reading
International Solidarity Actions for Anarchist / Antifascist Prisoners in the Russian Federation
Following the announcements on anarchist media platforms of the manifestly excessive prison sentences faced by members of the FSB fabricated “Network” – Dmitry Pchelintsev, Ilya Shakursky, Arman Sagynbaev, Andrei Chernov, Vasily Kuksov, Mikhail Kulkov, and Maxim Ivankin – anarchists/ antifascists … Continue reading
Penza, Russia: Defendants in Network Case Receive Up to 18 Years in Prison
Note from The Russian Reader website: This verdict doesn’t leave me at a loss for words. I’m just convinced there is no point in using them when everyone who could listen has made a point of tuning out people like … Continue reading
Russia: Antifascist Prisoner Viktor Filinkov- “It’s As If You Disappear-Only the Pain Remains”
Viktor Filinkov’s Speech in Court on 4 June 2019 While Recording a Voice Sample (The Court Could Not Interrupt the Defendant for Ten Minutes)… Viktor Filinkov: When I was tortured . . . Well, it was unexpected, of course. It … Continue reading
Russia: Prosecutor Asks Court to Sentence Penza Network Case Defendants to Up to 18 Years in Prison
OVD Info December 26, 2019 The state prosecutor has asked the Volga District Military Court to sentence the five defendants in the Penza portion of the Network Case to between six and eighteen years in prison, according to a member … Continue reading