Russian detainees expose Moscow police officer who tortured them BBC News

On 6 March, huge antiwar 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 Eyes 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. Please subscribe HERE