Urals police sexually assaulted a skinhead with a police baton and threatened to do likewise with other skinheads to obtain information about members of an anti-skinhead group called Antifa, a news report said Friday.
A court in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia republic, heard a recording Thursday in which one of the skinheads who was threatened with assault recounted the alleged police actions, the Udmurt Den news agency reported.
The court is trying several Antifa members on charges of beating and stabbing skinheads. One of the defendants filed a complaint with local prosecutors Friday alleging the police illegally used force to get information.
(MT)
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