2023-07-06 02:08:47
Elena Milashina was attacked in Chechnya. In addition to the beatings, she was sprayed with green paint. She went because of her multiple complaints about human rights violations.
05/07/2023
A group of masked men violently attacked a Russian journalist in Chechnya, western Russia. After hitting her with a stick, the attackers shaved her head and sprayed green ink on her face.
The victim, Elena Milashina, is a reporter for Novaya Gazetaone of the few strongholds of the Russian independent press and whose director, Dmitri Muratov, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. “His state is complicated,” Muratov said.
The journalist was next to the lawyer Alexander Nemov. Both had just arrived in Chechnya to attend the trial of Zarema Musayeva, mother of two dissidents accused of terrorism. The woman was finally sentenced to five and a half years in prison for insults and violent resistance to the police.
How was the attack against the Russian journalist Elena Milashina
The attack occurred when Milashina and Nemov were leaving the Grozny airport, the Chechen capital. Then several vehicles blocked his car.
Elena shows the marks on her back
Both were beaten by masked people who put guns to their heads. and they tore their material.
Milashina suffered a concussion and several broken fingers, while Nemov received a deep cut on his leg, according to Novaya Gazeta.
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The journalist has long denounced human rights violations in Chechnya. In 2020, the reporter and a lawyer who was with her were beaten by a dozen people in the lobby of the hotel where she was staying.
The leader of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrovwho in the past labeled Milashina a “terrorist”, said regional authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.
International rights groups accused Kadyrov’s feared security forces of extrajudicial executions, torture and kidnapping of dissidents.
What is the state of health of the Russian journalist attacked in Chechnya
Milashina is admitted to a hospital in Moscow and her condition is “frankly complicated,” the director of Nóvaya Gazeta, Dmitri Muratov, reported on Wednesday.
The outlet posted a video of Milashina in the hospital with her head shaved and her hands bandaged. The organization Human Rights Watch He denounced that the reporter’s attackers cut her hair and threw green ink at her.
In February 2022, the journalist had to flee Russia, according to the outlet where she works, due to threats made by Kadirov.
Since 2000, six journalists or collaborators of Nóvaya Gazeta have been assassinated, including journalist Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead at the entrance to her building in Moscow.
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