Russia puts man who leaked prison torture videos on wanted list


  • World
  • Saturday, 23 Oct 2021

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's interior ministry has declared Sergei Savelyev, who leaked purported prison torture videos to a human rights group, as wanted, the database on its website showed on Saturday.

The prisoner rights group Gulagu.net has said the video files that Savelyev passed on show instances of both torture and sexual assaults at a jail in the Saratov region, around 700 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow.

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