Russian facing extremism charges alleges police torture
by Andrew Roth in Mosccow from on (#563YT)
Ruslan Kostylenkov says officers beat and sexually assaulted him to make him confess
A defendant in a controversial Russian extremism case has accused the police of beating and sexually assaulting him in order to obtain a confession, the latest accusation of police torture in a high-profile trial in the country.
In a courtroom statement on Friday, Ruslan Kostylenkov accused five police officers of tying him to a chair, beating him in the kidneys, and then sodomising him with the handle of a kitchen mallet so that he would confess on camera to belonging to an anarchist organisation.
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