Resident of Krasnodar Territory complains of torture by police

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started a check of the video appeal posted on the Internet by Sergey Medvesh, a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, who claims that policemen had raped him with a bottle of vodka.

"The Investigatory Department of the ICRF for the Krasnodar Territory has found on a website on the Internet a video appeal of a resident of the village of Varenikovskaya, Crimea District, saying that policemen used physical force against him, trying to get the needed evidence," the "Interfax" quoted the statement of the ICRF.

The video clip with the Medvesh's statement was posted on the YouTube on March 29. The man claims that policemen brought him to the office of the head of the criminal investigation in the city of Krymsk, where they offered him to give the "necessary" evidences allowing recognizing him as a witness.

According Chief Department of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Mr Medvesh figures as a witness in a criminal case of murdering a 17-year-old girl.

According to Medvesh, policemen forced him to confess that he had brought the girl and several young men in his car to the place where the murder occurred. And he confessed of that under torture. In fact, according to Medvesh, the car had really once belonged to him, but was sold well before the crime, the "Moy Rayon" writes.

The man said that policemen first forced him to read the prayer "Our Father", and then began raping him with an empty vodka bottle. After that, he gave the evidences that the rapists wanted, the RIA "Novosti" quotes the Medvesh's story.