In two weeks of investigation, Human Rights Watch identified numerous cases of alleged police brutality and torture. The group did not visit any Far Eastern seaboard region, but Lohman said the pattern seems to be the same nationwide. If you can find the right guy and you beat him up, he'll tell you where to find the evidence you need to solve the crime. Some Russian experts estimate that 50 percent of detainees are tortured or mistreated, Human Rights Watch stated. The most common torture is kicking and beating with fists and nightstick on the victim's head, back, kidneys, legs, and heels.
Police show a remarkable linguistic creativity in naming their abuses.
The detainee is forced to sit with his head between his knees and his hands tied to his feet while police batter him. The prisoner went blind in September after he was asphyxiated in Moscow, where he was studying applied mathematics. He went blind while in prison, and doctors say it was a result of his torture, the human rights group stated. Police often zap prisoners with powerful jolts of electricity. Two people jumped out the window of the police station and were paralyzed rather than be subjected to further electric shock.