In Russia, more and more calls are being made for harsh punishment of the perpetrators of the attack in a concert hall in the Moscow region, in which more than 130 people died, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.
Four men accused of carrying out a terror attack appeared in court yesterday evening with signs of a brutal beating.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the investigation was still ongoing, but vowed that "the perpetrators will be punished because they do not deserve mercy.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, called on the authorities to "kill all the perpetrators".
In Friday night's attack on "Crocus City Hall" in the western suburbs of Moscow, 137 people were killed and more than 180 injured in what turned out to be Russia's deadliest bombing in years. A total of 97 people remain hospitalized, officials said.
Former Russian President Medvedev was particularly scathing in his comments on the suspects.
"They are captured. Kudos to all who pursued them. Should they be killed? Must. And this will happen," he wrote on his Telegram page. "But it is more important to kill everyone involved. All. Those who paid, those who sympathized, those who helped. Kill them all," he added.
Margarita Simonyan, the head of the state-funded TV channel RT, shared on the social network "X" photographs of the faces of the four arrested for the attack, bruised and swollen from an alleged beating. She commented that even the death penalty - which is currently banned in Russia - would be "too light" for these people.
Instead, she said, they should face "a lifetime of hard labor somewhere underground, living there too, without the opportunity to see light, on bread and water, forbidden to talk and under not very humane attitude".
Opposition activists and human rights defenders noted the "demonstrative cruelty" to men. Arbitrariness and abuse of suspects by law enforcement and security services is nothing new, said Sergey Davidis of the human rights group "Memorial".
"We know about the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, we know about the mass torture of those accused of terrorism, treason and other crimes, especially those investigated by the Federal Security Service. This is where it was first made public,", Davidis said.
"They decided there was no reason to hide their methods this time,", he said, adding: "This is a bad sign.
Anastasia Burakova, a lawyer and founder of a group called "Kovcheg", which helps Russians who have fled abroad, agrees with Davidis and wrote in "X": "These days, torture has entered the public domain. space and ceased to be an unspoken practice."