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Man Nails Testicles To Red Square In Protest

songhrati

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Oh, dear god.

Man nails testicles to Red Square to protest Russian crackdown on rights

http://www.theage.com.au/world/man-nail ... 2xah2.html


Moscow: 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.
 
A followup on this guy.

He has since been accused of sex crimes, wrapped himself in barbed wire and lopped off an earlobe while sitting naked on the wall of a psychiatric institute, served time for setting fire to the door of the Russian FSB HQ, fled to France, set fire to a French bank, and arrested in connection with a brawl.

And now he's leaked a French politician's sex video - something seen as a definite no-no in France.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51517602

He sounds really quite mentally ill, far beyond "artistic temperament".
 
I give him full marks for creative thinking. He's been thinking up novel ways to get arrested.
 
I read that article thinking at first, there must be a conspiracy in this, but nope, all parties have condemned it, and the guy is just a complete maniac. On a moral crusade, even worse.
 
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