Stun Gun Used During Search in Saratov. Victim's Family Demands Crime Be Investigated

As reported by Mikhail Proshenkov, 58, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, he was subjected to brutal treatment during searches on September 3, 2025. His wife approached numerous authorities, demanding they urgently investigate the incident.

According to members of the victim's family, armed law enforcement officers broke into the apartment and knocked Mikhail face down to the floor, breaking his glasses. Without informing him of his rights and not allowing him to read the documents for the search, the investigator demanded access to the computer. Mikhail did not provide the password. For this, the believer was threatened with the use of force against him and his son. After he refused again, the law enforcement officers inflicted six shocks on Mikhail with a stun gun to the thigh, lower leg and abdomen. Following the search and interrogation, he was placed in a temporary detention facility, and then in pretrial detention center No. 1 in the Saratov Region.

On September 10, Irina Proshenkova, Mikhail's wife, sent an application for an urgent medical examination to the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Saratov Region, as well as a report on the brutal treatment to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region, to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, to the Prosecutor's Office of the Saratov Region, to Tatyana Moskalkova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation and to Nadezhda Sukhova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Saratov Region.