Phone call to Putin explained

The phone call to Putin (Russian: звонок Путину|zvonok Putinu) is a slang term used by some Russian police departments for torture method which consists of administering electric shocks to the person's earlobes, nose, and/or genitals.[1] [2] [3] According to Amnesty International, torture with electric shocks by security forces and prison, jail, and penal colony guards is common in Russia.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

This method was profiled in publications describing a case of Aleksei Mikheyev who was falsely accused in 2006 of murder while his alleged victim was alive and well.[1] 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.[10] 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.[11] [12]

Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 there have been many reports of torture by Russian forces with the use of electric shocks.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Oksana Minenko from Kherson reported that Russian soldiers tortured her with electric shocks and called the torture ‘a phone call to Zelensky’.[19]

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  1. News: Anna . Nemtsova . A Phone Call to Putin. How do Kremlin authorities deal with whistle-blowers? Silence them . 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.' . . March 13, 2006 . 2009-01-19 .
  2. News: My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture . 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. . . 2009-01-21 .
  3. News: Putin reveals his need for G8 . 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. . . January 31, 2006 . 2009-01-19 .
  4. https://www.amnesty.org/russia/torture.html Amnesty International report
  5. Web site: Justice Report by Amnesty International . 2016-12-04 . 2009-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090325142206/http://www.amnesty.org/russia/pdfs/justice-report-eng.pdf . dead .
  6. https://www.amnesty.org/russia/torture.html Torture and ill-treatment
  7. Web site: UN Committee against Torture Must Get Commitments From Russia to Stop Torture . 2009-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081111221054/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/11/13/russia14557.htm . 2008-11-11 . dead .
  8. http://news.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR460041997?open&of=ENG-345 Torture in Russia "This man-made Hell"
  9. Web site: Russian intelligence agency FSB accused of torturing suspects with electric shocks .
  10. http://www.rferl.org/content/Article/1344233.html Russia Report: February 6, 2006
  11. [Yulia Latynina]
  12. http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/8323-6.cfm Police Are at War With the Russian People
  13. Web site: Russian forces launch full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Al Jazeera. 24 February 2022. 5 April 2022.
  14. Web site: 21 March 2022 . Chilling account of Radio France fixer who was kidnapped and tortured by Russian soldiers in Ukraine Reporters without borders . 31 March 2022 . RSF.
  15. Web site: Ott . Haley . 22 March 2022 . Journalist reportedly kidnapped and tortured by Russian soldiers in Ukraine . 23 March 2022 . CBS News.
  16. Web site: 21 March 2022 . Le récit glaçant de ce fixeur ukrainien de Radio France arrêté par les Russes . 31 March 2022 . Le HuffPost . fr.
  17. Web site: 18 May 2022 . Ukraine: Executions, Torture During Russian Occupation Apparent War Crimes in Kyiv, Chernihiv Regions . Human Rights Watch . 31 May 2022.
  18. Web site: 'I Would Not Have Kidneys Left': Ukrainian Village Deputy Speaks About Russian Torture, Threat . . June 2022.
  19. Web site: 'Russians put me next to my husband's fresh grave and amused themselves by shooting over my head' . Texty.org.ua . 12 January 2023.

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