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| '''Phone Call to Putin''' ({{lang-ru|звонок Путину}}) is a Russian slang term for torture method used by ]n ] to extract confession out of detainees. It consists of administering ]s to the person's ].<ref name=newsweek>{{cite news |first=Anna |last=Nemtsova |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=A Phone Call to Putin. How do Kremlin authorities deal with whistle-blowers? Silence them |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/46885 |quote=In one recent landmark ruling, the court awarded €250,000 to Aleksei Mikheyev of Nizhny Novgorod, falsely accused of rape and murder in 1998. Investigators had extracted a written confession by administering electric shocks to Mikheyev's earlobes, a torture method widely known as 'a phone call to Putin.' |work=] |date=March 13, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-19 }}</ref><ref name="Torture">{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture |url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/2b0c6a68-453a-4af9-8586-8bc997c3ab81.html |quote=Torture is so common in Russian police stations that the method used on Mikheyev even has a name: the "phone call to Putin." It consists of inflicting electric shocks through wires attached to the victim's earlobes. |work=] |date= |accessdate=2009-01-21 }}</ref><ref name="novgaz"/><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Putin reveals his need for G8 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12555302_ITM |quote=The first was that when Russian police torture a suspect these days, they attach electric wires to the victim's earlobes, turn on the current and call it a "zvonok Putinu," a phone call to Putin. |work=] |date=January 31, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-19 }}</ref> According to ], torture with electric shocks is common in ].<ref name=AI_Russia></ref><ref name="rights"></ref><ref name="torture"></ref><ref name="hrw4"></ref><ref name="tor1"> - by Amnesty International, 3 April 1997</ref> | '''Phone Call to Putin''' ({{lang-ru|звонок Путину}}) is a Russian slang term for torture method used by ]n ] to extract confession out of detainees. It consists of administering ]s to the person's ].<ref name=newsweek>{{cite news |first=Anna |last=Nemtsova |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=A Phone Call to Putin. How do Kremlin authorities deal with whistle-blowers? Silence them |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/46885 |quote=In one recent landmark ruling, the court awarded €250,000 to Aleksei Mikheyev of Nizhny Novgorod, falsely accused of rape and murder in 1998. Investigators had extracted a written confession by administering electric shocks to Mikheyev's earlobes, a torture method widely known as 'a phone call to Putin.' |work=] |date=March 13, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-19 }}</ref><ref name="Torture">{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture |url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/2b0c6a68-453a-4af9-8586-8bc997c3ab81.html |quote=Torture is so common in Russian police stations that the method used on Mikheyev even has a name: the "phone call to Putin." It consists of inflicting electric shocks through wires attached to the victim's earlobes. |work=] |date= |accessdate=2009-01-21 }}</ref><ref name="novgaz"/><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Putin reveals his need for G8 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12555302_ITM |quote=The first was that when Russian police torture a suspect these days, they attach electric wires to the victim's earlobes, turn on the current and call it a "zvonok Putinu," a phone call to Putin. |work=] |date=January 31, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-19 }}</ref> According to ], torture with electric shocks is common in ].<ref name=AI_Russia></ref><ref name="rights"></ref><ref name="torture"></ref><ref name="hrw4"></ref><ref name="tor1"> - by Amnesty International, 3 April 1997</ref> | ||
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Template:Cleanup-articletitle Phone Call to Putin (Template:Lang-ru) is a Russian slang term for torture method used by Russian police to extract confession out of detainees. It consists of administering electric shocks to the person's earlobes. According to Amnesty International, torture with electric shocks is common in Russia.
This method was profiled in publications describing a case of Aleksei Mikheyev who was falsely accused of murder while his alleged victim was alive and well. After surviving the alleged "phone call" torture, he jumped out of a third-floor window to escape his tormentors. The fall resulted in a spinal cord injury that rendered Mikheyev a paraplegic. His case was taken to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and became notable as "the first serious victory in a case of torture" brought to the Court against Russian government.
References
- ^ Nemtsova, Anna (March 13, 2006). "A Phone Call to Putin. How do Kremlin authorities deal with whistle-blowers? Silence them". Newsweek. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
In one recent landmark ruling, the court awarded €250,000 to Aleksei Mikheyev of Nizhny Novgorod, falsely accused of rape and murder in 1998. Investigators had extracted a written confession by administering electric shocks to Mikheyev's earlobes, a torture method widely known as 'a phone call to Putin.'
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - "My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
Torture is so common in Russian police stations that the method used on Mikheyev even has a name: the "phone call to Putin." It consists of inflicting electric shocks through wires attached to the victim's earlobes.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Yulia Latynina "Phone Call to Putin: A new method that the cops love. In the war against your own people, all tactics are good." (Russian) Novaya Gazeta 9 August, 2004
- "Putin reveals his need for G8". United Press International. January 31, 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
The first was that when Russian police torture a suspect these days, they attach electric wires to the victim's earlobes, turn on the current and call it a "zvonok Putinu," a phone call to Putin.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Amnesty International report
- Justice Report by Amnesty International
- Torture and ill-treatment
- UN Committee against Torture Must Get Commitments From Russia to Stop Torture
- Torture in Russia "This man-made Hell" - by Amnesty International, 3 April 1997
- Russia Report: February 6, 2006 by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Police Are at War With the Russian People by Yulia Latynina "In Nizhny Novgorod, Alexei Mikheyev gave a ride to a young woman he knew. When she didn't come home that evening, Mikheyev was arrested. He was tortured in the usual way -- the way Indians tortured white settlers and Chechen fighters torture Russian contract soldiers. Among other things the cops attached electric wires to Mikheyev's earlobes, a technique they like to call zvonok Putinu, or 'a phone call to Putin.' Mikheyev confessed to rape and murder."