Controversial Russian
artist and political activist Pyotr Pavlensky made quite a stir on Sunday
when he cut off his earlobe in public with a kitchen knife.
He was sitting unclad atop the roof of Moscow’s Serbsky psychiatric center
at the time.
In a statement posted on his wife’s Facebook page, Pavlensky said that the
act of mutilation had been done to protest the use of psychiatric treatment
on political dissidents. The slicing off of his earlobe, he said, was meant to
symbolize the destruction that’s caused by police “returning to the use of
psychiatry for political goals.”
According to RT.com, Pavlensky carried out his protest in below-freezing
temperatures. He was reportedly removed from the roof by police officers,
who took him to a hospital for treatment. More @
http://www.informationng.com/2014/10/naked-russian-activist-cuts-off-own-earlobe-with-kitchen-knife-in-act-of-protest.html#
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