Russian human rights organization Memorial said Tuesday that a Russian investigative journalist working for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was hospitalized after being beaten in Chechnya.
Chechen expert Elena Milachina was attacked after traveling to Russia’s Caucasus republic to cover the verdict at a trial, according to Memorial.
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Elena Milachina’s fingers are broken and she loses consciousness from time to time.The NGO said in a statement. His whole body was covered in bruises.confirms the press release.
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The car in which the journalist and her lawyer, Alexander Nemov, were attacked “armed men” On the way from the airport to the Chechen capital, Grozny, according to the NGO.
“We beat them violently with kicks, including in the face, and threatened to kill us by putting a gun to their heads.” and repeat “You have been warned. Get out of here and don’t write anything.”Memorial said.
journalist and her lawyer, “Who speaks and does not move”currently ” in the hospital “the NGO said.
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Elena Milashina, journalist from Novaya Gazeta (Nobel Peace Prize 2021), arrived in Chechnya today for a hearing in a mock trial. Armed masked men beat and brutally beat her and a lawyer working on the case. Both are hospitalized with injuries@employee pic.twitter.com/fUCUvbQAmu
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Elena Milachina has in particular angered the Chechen authorities by documenting the extrajudicial executions taking place there.
In February 2022, she had to leave Russia temporarily, according to her memoirs, after threats from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov who described her as “terrorist”.
Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s bastion of press freedom
On Tuesday, the journalist and her lawyer flew to Grozny to issue the sentencing statement against Zarema Musayeva, the wife of a former Russian federal judge of Chechen origin Saidi Yangulbaev, who has become an opponent of Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Zarema Musaeva, who was arrested in January 2022 in northern Russia by Chechen law enforcement authorities, was forcibly returned to the Caucasus. accused of” to cheat “ Based on “use of force” Against a police officer, this 53-year-old woman faces up to five and a half years in prison.
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Novaya Gazeta is one of Russia’s few bastions of a free press, and its editor, Dmitry Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.
The newspaper’s commitment, particularly in covering human rights abuses in Chechnya, has claimed the lives of many of its collaborators, who have been murdered, the most famous being Anna Politkowska.
