why baby monkeys? she was one of three women arrested under the obscene publications act. what was going through your mind? so these will go into a locker. activists want to strengthen the law to force social media companies to remove animal abuse. the online safety bill does not include animal torture as a specific area of concern, and i think anyone would be astonished that it s not included. there are still many active monkey torture groups on social media. youtube turned down an interview request, but said there is no place for animal abuse on their platform. telegram also declined to talk to us, but said it s committed to protecting user privacy. now in a sanctuary in indonesia, mini has a good chance of being released back into the wild. you re beautiful.
and then formed private groups on the messaging app telegram. here, they brainstormed and crowdfunded videos of baby monkeys being tortured. we spent months undercover, trying to identify the people involved, and track down one of the ringleaders in the us. i m the man. you want to see monkeys get messed up, i can bring it to you, but everything comes at a price. you ran one of the biggest groups in this community. correct. i m not proud of that. did you think about the monkeys, the pain? not at that point. all i thought about at that point was money. he s one of 25 people the us authorities are investigating. you want to see the mini? yeah. posing as a potential buyer, we hunted down mini s torturer in indonesia. when you hit them, do you. do you like?
video. several arrests have been made in connection with the abuse and two men in indonesia have been jailed. our correspondence went undercover to find out more. her film contains descriptions of torture, which you will find upsetting. torture, which you will find upsetting- torture, which you will find u-asettin. , . , torture, which you will find u-asettin. , ., , ., upsetting. these are “ust some of the thousands i upsetting. these are “ust some of the thousands of i upsetting. these are just some of the thousands of videos upsetting. these are just some of the thousands of videos that i upsetting. these are just some of the thousands of videos that we i upsetting. these are just some of. the thousands of videos that we have found on youtube of baby monkeys being abused. at the heart of this shocking torturing was mini. that is mini, what shocking torturing was mini. that is mini. what do shocking torturing was mini. that is mini, what do you shocking torturing was mini.
the bbc investigation uncovered? first of all, thank you very much for having me. i am especially grateful to the bbc for exposing this issue because when we put a spotlight on eva like this, we give it nowhere to hide, and that is truly the only way to stop it. so i do appreciate the exposure. i have been investigating this particular type of monkey torture for the past two years in coordination with sarah for action for primates. the findings have been horrifying. it went from bad to worse. what was originally hitting, beating, dragging around with chains, very quickly escalated into people capping baby monkeys fingers off, ears off, burning, drowning. the stuff that happens in nightmares. this has been incredibly difficult case to investigate and the perpetrators absolutely must be stopped. social media platforms be
thoughts to his family. they said that shahzada dawood has been an adviser in their international arm. we will bring you more as soon as it comes in. a word of warning, there are details in this video which may find upsetting. these are just some of the thousands of videos we found on youtube of baby monkeys being abused. at the heart of this shocking torture ring was mini. the people who wanted to do something to mini were part of a global online community. they found each other on youtube