Russian detainees expose Moscow police officer who tortured them BBC News

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On 6 March, huge anti-war demonstrations across
Russia saw more than 5,000 protesters arrested. 29
were taken to Moscow's Brateyevo Police Station for
questioning.
There, an unnamed police officer wearing black
subjected at least 11 young women to verbal and
physical abuse, often amounting to torture. This
included suffocation.
Two of the detainees recorded their ordeals and on
release leaked the audio to the press. Despite
international outrage and multiple calls for an
investigation by a Russian politician, the authorities
did not open a criminal case.
In place of one, the victims set out to find the 'man in
black' themselves. Using a leaked database from a
Russian food delivery company called Yandex,
archived social media accounts, and old dating
profiles, BBC Eye's new documentary Finding My
Torturer tells the story of how these young women
came together to expose the identity of their torturer
and his commanding officer.

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