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‘I heard screams and thought it was important to record’: Alexandra Kaluzhskikh, a young woman who secretly recorded audio of officers beating her at a Moscow police station, tells her story

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A viral audio recording from March 6 -- a day that saw both anti-war protests break out across Russia and the arrests of 4,400 people -- documented the cruel beating and verbal abuse police meted out to artist and feminist activist Alexandra Kaluzhskikh. The 26-year-old managed to smuggle an actively recording phone into the interrogation room. Soon after leaving policy custody, she released the audio online. Meduza contacted Alexandra and asked her to tell her story.
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MEDUZA/EN/VHFBy Nikolai Priser