Russian cop boasts ‘Putin is on our side’ as he savagely beats anti-war protester – World News
WARNING – CONTAINS DISTRESSING DETAILS Alexandra Kaluzhskikh secretly recorded herself being punched by police officers in a cell in Moscow’s Brateevo police station after a day of mass protests against the war in Russia
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Police officers brutally beat and sexually humiliated an anti-war protester in Russia, an audiotape of the incident suggests.
The alarming audio clip emerged after a day of protests and mass detentions across the country on Sunday, with 4,460 people arrested by the police for publicly opposing the war.
One of them was Alexandra Kaluzhskikh, who was told she was an “enemy of the people” before being insulted, punched and humiliated.
She found herself enduring physical and emotional punishment in a cell in Moscow’s Brateevo police station with two male and one female police officers present.
As she is struck, a policeman tells her: “Putin is on our side. You are enemies of Russia.
“The enemies of the people.
“I’ll f***ing beat you here and this will be it, and I’ll get an award for it.”
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A woman is detained during a protest on Sunday
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The woman is asked where she studies before she is punched by one of the male police officers who then says: “There will be another big bruise now. Stand up and remember.”
Kaluzhskikh is heard to be struck again and the officer asks: ‘Are we continuing, or is it still article 51?”
The female detainee is heard asking the female police officer ”Is it all right for a woman to watch this?” to which she replies “Yes, it’s all right.”
Then the male officer says to Kaluzhskikh: “Look at yourself. Your boobs are hanging like a cow’s udder. Look at yourself! F***ing monkey!”
The woman officer ignores the comments and asks the detainee where she studies or works.
When Kaluzhskikh remains silent, the male officer replies: “We will get what we need”, warning the beatings will get more severe the longer she refuses to answer their questions.
“We don’t give a f***,” he says.
Russian police were quick to crack down on the demonstrations yesterday
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When the detainee asks if she is being threatened, the male police officer replies: “Yes! Yes. I threaten you, I threaten you with physical punishment.”
After telling the officers that she is 26 and being made to stand up to show them her height, Kaluzhskikh refuses to say where she heard about the protest rally.
“Punch her,” one of the officers demands, before Kaluzhskikh can be heard groaning in pain.
She is heard saying: “Oh God. Listen, please can you not look at me, I don’t have a bra on.”
One of the male police officers says: “Just look at this schmuck. There’s nothing to look at…”
More beatings can then be heard on the audio recording.
“Ouch…You hit me on the head, on my face with a water bottle….” she says.
Head of Moscow’s Brateevo police station Alexander Batsenkov
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One of the male police officers suggests the detained woman is enjoying the beating, before the other rages: “A f***ing schmuck. Putin told to f***ing beat them all, these f***wits.
“This is it. Putin is on our side. You are enemies of Russia. The enemies of the people. I’ll f***ing beat you here and this will be it, and I’ll get an award for it.”
She is repeatedly punched again and the detainee says: “You are pulling my hair. It hurts!”
Her torturer reports sarcastically: “It hu-u-u-rts.”
The other male police officer suggests she hasn’t washed for a week, before the female officer calls her a f***er for not sharing information about how the rally was organised.
The detainee says to the policewoman: “A man is beating me before your eyes, and you are saying I am a f***er?”
Police arrested more than 4,000 people yesterday
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She replies: “Yes, yes.”
The recording, made by the detainee who was eventually released pending a court case, ends with the woman being told she will be Tasered.
Another woman detainee at the same police station said that people were beaten, had bags put over their heads and water poured over them.
The claims came on a bleak day in Russia where security forces brutally cracked down on people opposing the war.
In Yekaterinburg a driver was stopped, dragged out of his car and detained after he honked in support of protesters.
Another man was beaten with batons for filming a protest rally.
In Krasnoyarsk, a police officer was seen erasing a ‘No to War’ slogan in the snow.
In Moscow a detention truck with 27 anti-war protesters locked inside crashed.
The cell-on-wheels was speeding to a detention centre when the collision occurred.
Three detainees needed urgent medical treatment, and ten were injured, including three police officers.
Some 13,000 Russians have been detained for protests since the start of the war.
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