Russian terror suspect ‘electrocuted by his genitals’ during interrogation
by This is the distressing moment one of the suspects behind the terrorist attack in Russia was ‘electrocuted by his genitals’ during interrogation.
Evidence of Vladimir Putin’s medieval torture methods was leaked on Telegram channels with ties to the Kremlin.
A photo shows suspected ringleader Shamsiddin Fariduni on the ground, with his trousers and pants pulled down.
A wire from a military communications device TA-57, which security forces use for torture with electric shocks, appears to be connected to his intimate parts.
The victim appears to be clenching his teeth from the pain, while a man in military uniform stands above him with his foot on his leg.
According to the Gray Zone channel, it discharges voltage up to 80 volts. Water is then poured on the victim to intensify the pain.
Fariduni was detained on suspicion of committing the massacre at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s Krasnogorsk on Friday evening, in which 137 people were killed, including three children, and at least 180 more injured.
Four men, all citizens of Tajikistan, are being charged over the deadliest assault in Russia in years, which ISIS claimed responsibility for, in a court in Moscow.
Putin’s security forces have been leaking footage of police officers torturing them ever since capturing them.
While electrocution is commonly reported by detainees in Russia, to parade these torture scenes so openly is new even for the Federal Security Service (FSB).
About 51 hours after the shooting began, the suspects, one by one, appeared in court for their pretrial hearings.
One man was seen with his ear sliced off, while another appeared in a wheelchair and a hospital gown.
According to independent news outlet Mediazona, whose reporters attended the hearings, he was brought in from intensive care.
Meanwhile, Fariduni’s face was seen all bruised and swollen, allegedly from severe beatings.
The four men have been charged with committing an act of terrorism. They were led blindfolded into a courtroom in Russia’s capital, where three of them pleaded guilty to the charges.
Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30, and Fariduni, 25, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Human rights group gulagu.net – which highlights widespread torture in Russian prisons – said about the leaked evidence: ‘For more than 10 years, we have been consistently exposing torture and its systemic nature in Russia.
‘It is obvious that sanctions for these tortures, as well as for the torture of Ukrainian prisoners, are given from the very top.
‘The same as with Prigozhin using a sledgehammer… an executor of the will of the murderer and dictator Vladimir Putin….
‘If there is all the evidence and [it] has been collected, why should the FSB torture the Tajiks?
‘So that they take the blame and voice a version [of the atrocity] convenient for Putin and the FSB?’
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