The alleged abuser told the broadcaster that he was transferred and eventually released thanks to the filmed video. It was only squeezed in between the buttocks,” he told 360 TV. “That handle didn’t hurt anyone’s anything. It reported that Novikov had been released on parole and may be working as a fitness instructor in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha. The outlet identified one of the perpetrators as Roman Novikov, 36, who was sentenced to 8.5 years in a maximum-security prison in August 2017 for a murder committed in 2010. Moscow region’s 360 TV news broadcaster, which shared the video on Wednesday, said the footage was filmed in a local pre-trial detention center sometime last year.
“What are you, scared?” one of the abusers is heard saying. One of the men appears to ram a wooden rod between the man’s buttocks as the loud sounds of a television drown out his screams. The latest two-minute smartphone video depicts three bald men holding down a fourth half-naked man on a mattress trying to get him to divulge information.
