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(CNN) — Elena Milashina, a prominent Russian journalist who uncovered the horrific crackdown on gay men in Chechnya, was severely beaten alongside a lawyer in an attack in the southern
Click to expand Image Elena Milashina 2009 Patricia Williams Today, a group of armed thugs in Chechnya's capital, Grozny, attacked Elena Milashina, a prominent journalist and a recipient of Human Right Watch's award for extraordinary activism, and Alexander Nemov, a human rights lawyer. Both had been working on the case of Zarema Mussaeva, who was being tried on apparent politically motivated charges. Milashina and Nemov were on their way to court when men in black balaclavas dragged them out of their car, held them at gun point, threatened to kill them, kicked and beat them with stic...
Elena Milashina, a prominent Russian journalist who uncovered the horrific crackdown on gay men in Chechnya, was “severely beaten” alongside a lawyer in an attack in the southern Russian republic, according to her employer Novaya Gazeta.