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Armed, masked assailants in Russia’s Chechnya province attacked and brutally beat an investigative journalist and a prominent lawyer on Tuesday, in an assault that highlighted a violent pattern of rampant human rights abuses in the region.
Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina And a lawyer Alexander Nemov He had just arrived in Chechnya to attend the trial of the mother of two local activists who defied the Chechen authorities. Outside the airport, their car was intercepted by several cars, and they were attacked by the assailants, who beat them with clubs, put guns to their heads, and broke their equipment.
Novaya Gazeta said that Milashina had a brain injury and several fingers were broken, and Nemov He received a deep wound in his leg. Milashina said in a video that the attack looked like a “classic kidnapping”.
“It is a very serious attack that requires active steps” from law enforcement agencies, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina And a lawyer Alexander Nemov He had just arrived in Chechnya to attend the trial of the mother of two local activists who defied the Chechen authorities. Outside the airport, their car was intercepted by several cars, and they were attacked by the assailants, who beat them with clubs, put guns to their heads, and broke their equipment.
Novaya Gazeta said that Milashina had a brain injury and several fingers were broken, and Nemov He received a deep wound in his leg. Milashina said in a video that the attack looked like a “classic kidnapping”.
“It is a very serious attack that requires active steps” from law enforcement agencies, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
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