The World Cup Is Fun. Except for the Russians Being Tortured.
Have you enjoyed the first week of the 2018 World Cup? Good. Some of the games have certainly been very exciting!
Now read the words of Dmitry Pchelintsev as they appeared in MediaZona, a small independent online publication focused on police brutality and the prison system in Russia: “The man in surgical gloves cranked the DC generator with wires attached to my toes. The calves of my legs started contracting violently, I was paralyzed with pain. They threw me on the floor, pulled my underpants down and tried to attach the wires to my genitals. I clenched my teeth so hard that my mouth was full of blood and shards of broken teeth.”… Seguir leyendo »