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July 5, 2023

Veteran Russian Journalist Elena Milashina Brutally Attacked While Reporting in Chechnya
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Prominent Russian journalist Elena Milashina was violently attacked,
along with attorney Alexander Nemov, while on their way to the court
sentencing of a human rights activist in Grozny, Chechnya's capital.
Unknown assailants beat them, shaved off Milashina's hair and doused her
in blue-green liquid iodine. Milashina, who reports for the Novaya
Gazeta and exposed Chechnya's attacks on LGBTQ people, described the
harrowing attack from the hospital where she was being treated.

Elena Milashina: "It was like a classic kidnap, like the ones they used
to do. It just hasn't happened in a long time. They came, threw the taxi
driver out of the car. They got in, put my head down and tied my hands.
They put me on my knees and a pistol to my head."

Click here to see our 2009 interview with Elena Milashina.


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