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| '''Phone Call to Putin''' ({{lang-ru|звонок Путину}}) is a slang term used by some ] departments for ] method whicht 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> | |||
| This method was profiled in publications describing a case of Aleksei Mikheyev who was falsely accused of ] while his alleged victim was alive and well.<ref name=newsweek/> After surviving the alleged "phone call" torture, he jumped out of a third-floor window to escape his tormentors. The fall resulted in a ] that rendered Mikheyev a ].<ref> by ]</ref> His case was taken to the ] in ], ] and became notable as "the first serious victory in a case of torture" brought to the Court against Russian government.<ref> by ] "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."</ref><ref name="novgaz"> ] ] ], ] </ref> | |||
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