- Chinese Telegram poster began posting cat torture videos in 2022.
- Volunteer group gathered evidence presented to police last week.
- Telegram is banned in China, but many use workarounds to access app.
Chinese police have arrested a man accused of torturing around 1,500 stray cats to death in exchange for crypto payments.
Officers accuse a man in his sixties surnamed Ma, who resides in Henan Province, of being the “ringleader” of a macabre private Telegram community dedicated to cat torture. The community members typically paid the accused to make custom cat torture videos.
“In the early hours of April 19, our volunteers found a kitten with its eyes gouged out, and its throat cut in a rubbish bin in a building in a residential complex…
