Moscow riot police rape activist with a dumbbell for anti-mobilization poetry recital, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports

In Moscow, security services have beaten up activist Artem Kamardin and raped him with a dumbbell for participating in a public poetry recital against mobilization, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports. Activists Artem Kamardin, Alexandra Popova, and Alexander Menyukov were in the same apartment, when the enforcers broke in using an angle grinder. The police did not let their lawyer into the apartment, saying that an investigation was in progress: “The premises are being searched.”

The security service agents “submitted Kamardin to severe beating and inserted a dumbbell into his anus”. After that, they forced the protesters to apologize on camera for saying “Glory to Kyivan Rus” at the recital.

The 112 Telegram channel has posted the video of the “apology”.