Russian teen faces castration after brutal police beating

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 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... Herald Sun