Eleven years ago, Russian forces seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine and began a wave of arrests of Crimean Tatars, Radio Free Europe reports.
Rinat Paralamova was arrested in 2017 by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
Since December 2022, he has been living in Germany.
He says he was tortured and that the FSB wanted him to be an informant.
"They tied my hands behind my back with duct tape. They laid me face down on the floor, took off my pants, connected two wires to my buttocks. They flipped (a switch) and gave me an electric shock. At the same time, several people were pressing down on me. One was pressing down on my head, the other on my body. It was impossible to move," Paralamov said.
Through tears, he says he thought "this is the end, I'm done."
"I started praying silently," he said.
He agreed to be an informant and then fled to Germany.
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