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Issued on: Moscow on Saturday put a former prison inmate seeking asylum in France on a wanted list after he leaked harrowing videos of alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison. According to a notice published on the Russian interior ministry’s website , Sergei Savelyev — a Belarus national — is wanted in connection with an unspecified criminal case. Savelyev smuggled shocking footage of abuse out of a jail in the central city of Saratov. Fearing reprisals, he fled Russia in February and last week arrived in France, where he asked for asylum. While serving 7.5 years for drug...
