After a brutal attack in Chechnya, Russian journalist Milashina and lawyer Nemov are hospitalized in Grozny
Beaten, even kicked in the face, threatened with a gun pointed to the head. And the epilogue could have been a lot worse Russian investigative journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov, brutally attacked in Chechnya.
The two were in the Russian Federation to attend the sentencing of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of three exiled opponents of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Nemov and Milashina, who has been investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya for many years, are in hospital in Grozny.
The attackers took away the journalist’s work material and destroyed it.
Milashina’s newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading independent publication, confirmed the incident.
The Novaya Gazeta, whose editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, has had six of its journalists and staff killed since 2000, including investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Focusing on human rights abuses in Chechnya, Milashina followed in the footsteps of Politkovskaya, a harsh critic of Kremlin policy in Chechnya, who was killed in 2006.