An award-winning investigative journalist for the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been attacked in Chechnya, according to Russian human rights organization Memorial. Among other things, she would have suffered a closed craniocerebral trauma and regularly lose consciousness.
On the morning of July 4, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Aleksandr Nemov were attacked in the Chechen capital Grozny. At the time, they were in a car that had picked them up from the airport of the autonomous republic upon arrival.
robbed in the car
According to Nemov, three vehicles blocked the road and were then attacked by masked people. They beat the journalist and the lawyer with batons, including in the face. The perpetrators took their mobile phones and asked them to reveal their passwords. Equipment and documents were destroyed.
Independent journalists are not welcome
Experts assume that it is not an “ordinary” attack, but that the attack is related to the woman’s professional activity. In Grozny, the reporter wanted to report on the outcome of a sensational trial, and the lawyer was to accompany her.
Seljonka Attacke
Milashina and Nemov were taken to hospital. The lawyer would have stab wounds. According to the information, the journalist has closed craniocerebral trauma, broken fingers, bruises all over her body and occasionally loses consciousness. Her hair was shaved off and she was attacked with Seljonka.
In Russia, members of the opposition are often victims of Selyonka attacks. It involves dousing the face with a green coloring solution that is extremely difficult to remove.
Source: Krone
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