http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/ ... 5915221763

A RUSSIAN teenager is facing castration after being severely beaten by police in the Volga river town of Kstovo.

The doctors now treating the 17-year-old, Nikitin Kaftasev, "are not sure whether they will be able to save his male organs," the Committee Against Torture said in a statement.

Nikitin Kaftasev and a friend were detained and beaten by police on a street in the town centre, before being dragged to police headquarters where beatings continued for hours, the group said, citing the teen's testimony.

"The teenagers were subject to torture and ridicule. Nikitin was kicked in the groin," it said. "According to Nikitin, several policemen were present at the time."

Local prosecutors in the Nizhny Novogorod region, some 500 kilometres east of Moscow, said it would decide whether to launch a probe into the incident.

"We are now carrying out a preliminary check into this, after which there will be a decision on whether to open a criminal probe," against local police, spokesman Yulia Sklyarova said.

The latest report of police brutality comes as Russia's police force grapples with a slew of violent crimes by officers that badly hurt its reputation.

In January, a Russian journalist died from being savagely beaten and raped with a broom by a policeman in the Siberian city of Tomsk, and in Moscow, a lieutenant colonel shot a snow plow driver dead for grazing his car.

Just the month earlier, an investigator in Siberia shot a suspect during questioning.

*shivers*

of the thought of cops.. or ANYONE loosing control like that, disconnecting, then inflicting pain upon others. Luckily, it's the only thing I truly hate in this wonderful world

You'll want to stay away from denver. There is a lot of

current discussion of just how large the denver police

budget is for settling brutality cases. The guess seems

to be about $2,000,000 per year.

We're trying to compete with LA

It would seem to be that all police forces around the world,have one thing in common,they are all very handy at handing out beatings. Is it a xase of people are getting more violent,or is it a case of police officers just not being able to control of themselfs,and in violent situations they cant control there own tempers.

chemcast scot (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:09 am It would seem to be that all police forces around the world,have one thing in common,they are all very handy at handing out beatings. Is it a xase of people are getting more violent,or is it a case of police officers just not being able to control of themselfs,and in violent situations they cant control there own tempers.

It is more likely that the cops think that the only way to see justice done is to do it themselves. They set themselves up as judge and jury, then executioner.

Kristoff what can i sayto that,damm it your spot on there.

All those nasty cops beating people for no reason. Give me a break. Next will be a forum of how 85% of incarcerated criminals in the US are not guilty. If you know anything about municipal lawsuits you would know that there is no shortage of "lawyers" out there that make their living contacting people arrested and subdued by the police and telling them to allow them to sue the city. No charge unless paid off. Many cities will pay out 6 to 8 K to avoid the expense of the trial. "Lawyer" gets 4k, low life criminal gets 2k. A win win for them as our cities go broke.

yes and there is no shortage of police officers who cant control themselfs i tight situations,we ave all seen it before.

dualballs (imported) wrote: Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:48 pm All those nasty cops beating people for no reason. Give me a break. Next will be a forum of how 85% of incarcerated criminals in the US are not guilty. If you know anything about municipal lawsuits you would know that there is no shortage of "lawyers" out there that make their living contacting people arrested and subdued by the police and telling them to allow them to sue the city. No charge unless paid off. Many cities will pay out 6 to 8 K to avoid the expense of the trial. "Lawyer" gets 4k, low life criminal gets 2k. A win win for them as our cities go broke.

I'm quit sure that the Teenagers did give the police reason to haul them in. But in RUSSIAN police have been GOD IE no checks on power so they can play GOD.

In the US the criminals take vacations in jail (3 squares a day plus a bed ) They get out and don't wish to work, so they steal for money. And if they kill someone it's only 7 years maybe or at the worse a life sentence do to the libels thou shell not kill. Even with a death sentence it's years just to kill the criminals.

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_g (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:25 am I'm quit sure that the Teenagers did give the police reason to haul them in. But in RUSSIAN police have been GOD IE no checks on power so they can play GOD.

By the words of one of the teenagers,they were returning home late: "we drank some beer and were going home".

So there is a potential reason. But is it an excuse for beatings?

This is not a first story similar story, some make to the news, how much don't?

PS. There was a saying in Sov. Union times: "bad is such a policeman, who can not accuse a telegraph pole" ("плох тот милиционер, который не может придраться к телеграфному столбу"). I hope that translation from Russian is right.