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| Subject: Man nails testicles to Red Square to protest Russian crackdown on rights Sun Nov 10, 2013 7:20 pm | |
| A Russian performance artist has been hospitalised after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.
A video of the graphic action, available on Russian websites, shows artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum being covered with a blanket by police officers while horrified passers by look on.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency says Mr Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic.
The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a police state.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/man-nails-testicles-to-red-square-to-protest-russian-crackdown-on-rights-20131111-2xah2.html#ixzz2kI9OPFBz |
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