A young man in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been jailed for seven days for torturing his neighbour's cat while trying to film a video with it.
A young man in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been jailed for seven days for torturing his neighbour's cat while trying to film a video with it.
He told the court he was drunk and did not realise he had hurt the animal. A veterinary check found a crack in the bone of the cat's front left leg.
Animal cruelty cases rarely make the news in Uzbekistan, and a jail sentence, even a short one, signals that courts are willing to act when abuse is filmed and reported.
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