Poet Artyom Kamardin was beaten and raped by police just for reading out an anti-war poem. His fiancee Aleksandra, also tortured, told us about their ordeal. He now faces prison.
Our report from Moscow for BBC News - one day before a grand ceremony in the Kremlin to annex 15% of Ukraine.
Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg
Camera/edit Elizaveta Vereykina
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