Marat Nigmatulin, a philosophy student at Moscow State University, claims he was tortured by two men who introduced themselves as Federal Security Service (FSB) officers. They allegedly wanted the freshman to turn himself in, tvrain.ru reports.
According to the student, the men stopped him on November, 20 in the university building and asked to follow them. Nigmatulin refused; they beat him and dragged into the reading room.
“They demanded I should fully confess to ‘establishing a terrorist organization which had about 100 members’, ‘ committing terror attacks in Kerch, Archangelsk and Blagoveshchensk’, ‘building close ties established close ties with German, French , British and Cuban intelligence services’, ‘working for the Vatican’, ‘selling Russia’s military secrets to foreigners’,” the student stated.
If Nigmatulin’s statement is anything to go by, the FSB officers were trying to extract the confession by cutting his arms with a folding knife. Nigmatulin claims he had counted 22 cuts. The torture continued for about two hours, he added.
In 2018, Marat Nigmatulin was sentenced to house arrest over allegedly justifying terrorism. After October’s shooting in the Kerch Polytechnic College, the young man placed leaflets saying that the unknown organization Revolutionary Students claimed responsibility for the shooting. Later, Nigmatulin explained that he had just tried to make an impression on his coursemate.
