charities are calling on the government to help make this life saving product products more affordable clay macro affordable. there have been conversations about removing there have been conversations about removing vat. this is bbc news. a bbc investigation has revealed how people in the uk and the us are paying for monkeys in southeast asia to be tortured on video. several arrests have been made in connection with the abuse, and two men in indonesia have beenjailed. 0ur correspondent rebecca henschke went undercover to find out more. her film contains descriptions of torture which you 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 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.
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of a global online community. they found each other on youtube 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.
some people still have criminal records for that happened here, protesting against a flawed policy. there are now calls for those records to be reviewed. danny savage, bbc news, sheffield. a year long bbc investigation has uncovered a deeply distressing, murky, illegal market in the torture of small monkeys. the cruel community spans the globe with abusers in indonesia organised by middle men in the united states and some of the torture ordered by people here in the uk with three individuals arrested and currently released under investigation. rebecca henschke reports. these are just some of the thousands of videos we found on youtube of baby monkeys being abused. at the heart of this shocking