Russian Man Nails Own Testicles In Protest Against Crackdown On Political Rights -

A Russian performance artist was
hospitalised Sunday after stripping Unclad
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, showed artist Pyotr
Pavlensky sitting Unclad outside Lenin's
Mausoleum being covered with a blanket
by police officers while horrified passersby
looked on.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said
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".
Russia marked its annual Police Day holiday
on Sunday.
It is not the first time the 29-year-old has
resorted to eye-watering methods of
protest.
He has previously sown his lips together to
demonstrate against the jailing of two
female members of the Kitty-Cat Riot punk
band who staged an anti-Kremlin
performance inside Moscow's main
cathedral in 2011.
He was also arrested after wrapping his
Unclad body in barbed wire outside a Saint
Petersburg government building in May.
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