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BBCAn international network that shares the online video of cats and kitten is a member of the UK, BBC has found.
The network is thought that there are thousands of members who post, share and sell the graphic images and videos of CAT, which are hurt and killed.
In a group, on an encrypted messaging app, the BBC found evidence of British members, suggesting to adopt a kittens to mutate users from RSPCA.
After the BBC investigation, two teenagers killed two kittens in North-West London in May after torture and killing two kittens in a park in North-West London in May. He is being sentenced on Monday.
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It is understood that the police are now looking at a potential link to a broad network of cat -turore, which film, post and sell footage of attacks on the encrypted messaging app.
These groups began in China, but BBC News has identified active members worldwide including Britain.
The network’s scale is documented by Animal Rights Activists Felin Guardian.
The group says that between May 2023 and May 2024, a new video that reflects a kitten or cat torture and execution was uploaded in about 14 hours.
It says that this year 24 groups have been activated this year, the largest of which had more than 1,000 members. The most active torturer is believed to have shot torture and murder of more than 200 cats.
A group viewed by the BBC includes chat conversations, UK-based accounts, which discuss how to catch cats to misuse.
One member discussed how to adopt kittens with RSPCA and the applications posted. Another post shared an advertisement for kittens for sale in Britain, posting that they “wanted to torture them so badly”.
Lara Felin is a volunteer with parents. We have agreed not to do it for fear of not using his full name.
He said: “Every day I feel heartbroken, there is not a day that goes into the past that I do not think that my heart is breaking.”
She has spent the undercover time in the forums and says that there is no limit to getting ready to incite to torturers.
She describes it as a “depth of evil”.
Videos and photos viewed by the BBC are graphic and extremely upset.
These include footage of sinking and electrocks of cats. A video guesses how long the kitten will live in the cage if it is not given food.
Group members want as much pain as possible. In online chat, torturers explain how they use electrocution to revive a cat to prolong the victim.
New members are encouraged to mutate and post the video to get access to a broad network.
The BBC saw evidence that the children were participating in these groups. One member posted: “I am 10 years old and I like to torture cats.”
In September 2023, the network also promoted the “100 Cat Kill” competition, during which members were encouraged to see how quickly the group could torture and kill 100 cats.
The videos, showing the catastrophic torture of cats, first went viral in China in 2023.
Two extremely graphic videos, a person responsible for Wang Choy was detained by Chinese authorities for 15 days and forced to issue “repeated letter”.
But his footage followed a creed and others began to create similar materials for Chinese and Western social media, giving thousands of views, before the group developed on encrypted messaging apps.
A website even describes herself as a place for the “Cat-Lawar community” and requests the audience to “submit your job”.
Users can only get access when they provide proof of their own cat torture.
Which is Vinni?
“Little Winnie” is a famous name used for a profile picture in the cat torture community, which makes fun of Chinese leader Xi Jinping with the image of Winnie The Puh.
Accounts with that name and profile image are described as administrators in many forums.
A worker of Felin Guardian came in contact with one of those small Vini accounts and lured the man behind him in an online relationship.
Activists, who do not want to name, “I think it should be disgusting to be friendly and then to make this friendship with them.”
He interacted for several weeks and infiltrated the network.
“This was just an endless scroll of a torture video, one after another,” he said. “I thought, ‘I just can’t see this’. Even if I am messaging him, I can’t see it. I had to close my mind.”
Eventually he persuaded the man behind the account to make a video call. From that call, the group identified a 27 -year -old man living in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
When contacted by the BBC, the man said that he clearly denied any participation in these activities.
Lara told us to Felin parents that law enforcement and governments need to deal with groups, saying “it will only continue to expand and deteriorate”.
Felin Guardian has organized demonstrations outside the Chinese Embassy in London, demanding that the authorities in Beijing have to do more.
“In the mainland China, there is no law that is stopping it. This means that abusers and tortors can effectively do what they want and live these very sad fantasies without any result. These videos are uploaded then, and essentially it is a global problem, because it means that everyone has access to these videos.
Ian Brigs, head of RSPCA’s special operating unit, told the BBC, “In this way, it is not acceptable to treat animals in this way and there is no place in a modern society that is largely composed of kind, compassionate lovers.”
Johana Baxter MP, president of the All Party Parliamentary Group on CATS, said the group was “a deep worrisome trend, especially among young men”.
“Animal abuse often serves as an entrance, which makes it easier to rationalize and commit the acts of violence in the future,” he said.
