Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the «Network» case, has been released. He was deported to Kazakhstan
Submitted by Редакция on 30 January, 2025 - 23:23
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Anti-fascist and programmer Viktor Filinkov has been released after seven years of imprisonment due to the «Network» case. As he told «Mediazona», he was released from the prison IK-1 in Orenburg Region in the morning, after which he was taken to the border with Kazakhstan and handed over to local border guards. He was taken to the border in handcuffs.
Filinkov is a citizen of Kazakhstan. While he was in detention, the Federal Penitentiary Service declared his stay in Russia «undesirable», a common practice for those convicted on terrorist charges. Now Filinkov is traveling with his wife, human rights activist Yevgenia Kulakova, to Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan, where his mother lives.
Viktor Filinkov was detained in 2018 in St. Petersburg at the age of 23. According to the Federal Security Service (FSB) version, anti-fascists in Penza and St. Petersburg had united into a «terrorist community» called «Network» and were preparing for an «armed overthrow of authority».
After his arrest, Filinkov detailed how FSB officers took him to the forest and tortured him with a stun gun, forcing him to memorize the testimony they wanted. Filinkov was the last of the St. Petersburg activists who had not yet served his sentence.
Requisites for transfer of funds to Victor Filinkov:
- 2200700147541501 (Anastasia Sergeevna, Tinkoff)
- paypal: stripes@riseup.net