2023-07-04 11:39:51
A Russian investigative journalist working for the independent newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” was hospitalized after being beaten up in Chechnya, the Russian human rights NGO Memorial reported on Tuesday.
Chechnya expert Elena Milachina was attacked after traveling to the Russian Caucasus republic to cover the verdict in 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 is covered in bruises”underlines the press release.
“Leave here and write nothing”
The car where the journalist and her lawyer Alexandre Nemov were was attacked by “armed men” on the road from the airport to the Chechen capital Grozny, according to the NGO.
“We beat them violently with kicks, including in the face, threatened to kill them by putting a gun to their head” and repeating “You have been warned. Get out of here and don’t write anything”said Memorial.
The journalist and her lawyer, “who speaks and hardly moves”are currently ” to the hospital “said the NGO.
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Elena Milashina, a journalist from Novaya Gazeta (Noble Peace Prize 2021), arrived to Chechnya today to attend a court hearing in a bogus prosecution case. Armed masked men viciously beat & abused her and a lawyer working on the case. Both are in hospital w injuries @hrw pic.twitter.com/fUCUvbQAmu
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Elena Milachina has aroused the ire of the Chechen authorities in particular by documenting the extrajudicial executions that take place there.
In February 2022, she had to temporarily leave Russia, according to her diary, after threats from Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov who called her a “terrorist”.
“Novaya Gazeta”, bastion of the free press in Russia
On Tuesday, the journalist and her lawyer went to Grozny for the statement of the verdict against Zarema Mousaïeva, the wife of a former Russian federal judge of Chechen origin Saidi Yangoulbaïev who became an opponent of Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Arrested in January 2022 in northern Russia by Chechen law enforcement, Zarema Moussaïeva was forcibly brought back to the Caucasus. accused of” scam “ and of “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 the few bastions of the free press in Russia and its editor, Dmitry Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.
The newspaper’s commitment, particularly in covering human rights violations in Chechnya, cost the lives of several of its collaborators, murdered, Anna Politkovskaïa being the most famous.
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