Nigmatulin Marat Vladislavovich

On November 2, 2018, in Moscow, an FSB operative came to the home of 17-year-old schoolboy Mart Nigmatullin and demanded that the entire family appear for questioning at the local police department. When they arrived at the police station, Marat and his parents were separated into different rooms. Investigators intimidated the teenager's parents, threatening them with murder and rape. Torture was used against Marat himself: severe beatings, clamping his hands in a vise, and a stun gun. A few hours later, the entire family was transported to the police station in the Western Administrative District of Moscow. There, psychological pressure continued to be exerted on Nigmatulin's parents. Torture was again used against Marat, including with a stun gun. After 13 hours of torture, Nigmatulin 'confessed' to creating a terrorist organization, preparing an attack on a military unit and a plant named after him. Khruchnikova, in preparing a terrorist attack at the Evropeyskiy shopping center on Kievskaya, in preparing assassination attempts on Dmitry Puchkov and German Sterligov, in damaging the rails of the Sapsan (and not only the Sapsan) and justifying terrorism. After the testimony was obtained, the police took the family home to conduct a search, which lasted until 2 a.m. The security forces seized Marat's computers and books, after which they left." A search was also conducted at the Proton school where the boy studied. The search lasted several days, even the floors in the classrooms were torn up, and almost all the equipment was removed from the chemistry and labor rooms. Every day, FSB and Center 'E' employees came to the school and interrogated schoolchildren and teachers. It is reported that one of the students of "Proton" was beaten by operatives in the office of school psychologists. On December 7, 2018, Marat Nigmatullin was detained during an English lesson. On the same day, schoolchildren Ilya Daminov and Alisa Orlova were detained. Nigmatulin was taken to the IVS, where he was also subjected to torture. On December 11, 2018, the teenager was charged with calls for terrorism in two episodes. According to the investigation, on July 3, 2018, Nigmatulin placed a leaflet of the fictional organization "Revolutionary Schoolchildren of Moscow" on the gates of the diagnostic center of the Ministry of Defense, which contained "justification for the use of violent actions against military personnel. On 23 October 2018, he placed a leaflet of the same organisation on the door of the Filevsky Park district administration with text that approved the actions of Vladislav Roslyakov, who carried out a mass killing at Kerch Polytechnic College. The teenager himself insisted that there were no 'revolutionary schoolchildren,' and he composed the leaflets to impress his classmate. On December 13, 2018, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow chose a measure of restraint for the defendant in the form of house arrest. Marat was prohibited from leaving his residence, using the Internet, communicating with witnesses in the criminal case (and this is almost the entire school), receiving and sending letters. On February 17, 2019, Nigmatulin underwent an outpatient psychiatric examination at the institute named after. Serbian, according to the results of which he was sent for inpatient examination at the same institute. On July 11, 2019, Nigmatulin, who was under house arrest, entered the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University, and the measure of restraint was changed to a ban on certain actions. On August 23, 2019, Nigmatulina was placed in the psychiatric hospital named after. Alekseeva, where, according to him, he was subjected to daily torture. According to the father of Marat, Vladislav Nigmatullin, and his wife Lyudmila Kurbanova, throughout the two weeks that their son spent in the clinic, special services employees visited him daily: they came during the day, then at one, at two in the morning, talked until five in the morning, smoked in the ward, and demanded that he confess to creating a terrorist community. In the first days in the hospital, Marat was beaten: so as not to leave traces, the operatives put a thick book on his head and struck through it. According to the parents, the medical staff also put pressure on the teenager. The examination lasted until September 17, 2019. As a result, the experts concluded that the young man was healthy and did not need treatment. On September 18, 2019, Marat went out to [protest at] Moscow State University." Federal Security Service officers repeatedly visited the faculty, interrogating teachers and students. On November 20, two men met a young man in the Shuvalovsky building of Moscow State University, introduced themselves as FSB officers, and demanded that he go with them. Nigmatulin refused, he was beaten on the kidneys and knees and forcibly dragged into one of the reading rooms of the library. The security forces demanded that Nigmatulin write a confession statement in which he told how he allegedly created a terrorist organization with a hundred people, as well as staged terrorist attacks in Kerch, Arkhangelsk and Blagoveshchensk, established close ties with German, French, British and Cuban intelligence, worked for the Vatican for many years, sold military secrets of Russia to foreigners." Marat replied that he had not done anything like that, for which he was cut with a folding knife. As a result, he was stabbed 22 times: 15 on the left hand and seven on the right. In addition, they put a heavy book on the young man's head and hit it with their fist. This lasted about 2 hours. In the end, Nigmatulina was released, threatening to kill him and his family if he did not write a confession of guilt "in the very near future." On December 31, 2019, it became known that the prosecutor's office returned the criminal case for further investigation. In January 2020, Nigmatulina was again subjected to torture on the territory of MSU named after. Lomonosov. 16 July 2020, the 2nd Western Military Court found Marat Nigmatullin guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 30 thousand. rubles. The verdict was not appealed and entered into legal force.