Police officers in western Russia's Sverdlovsk region are suspected of filming a detainee sodomising a fellow inmate instead of stopping the violence, officials said
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The officers - identified as Vitaly Pelevin and Alexei Reshetov - also uploaded the video online, the investigative committee said.
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Police said they were sacked and that 12 of their superiors will face unspecified penalties over the scandal.
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The incident took place June 17, but police attempted to cover it up, investigators said.
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They did not identify the victim or the alleged rapist, saying only that the latter is 34 years old and attacked the inmate when waiting for questioning in pre-trial detention.
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If charged and convicted, the policemen face up to three months in prison for negligence.
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Russian police have earlier figured in scandals involving detainee abuse. In February, a man with a criminal record was raped to death with a champagne bottle by officers at a police precinct in Tatarstan.
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