Chairman of the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Andrei Radin issued an official statement in connection with the attack on journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya.
In a statement, Radin noted that Milashina had arrived in Chechnya on a business trip to cover the trial in the case of Zarema Musayeva. “The attackers severely beat Milashina and Nemov with clubs and kicks. People in masks took away phones, demanding to unlock them, destroyed equipment and documents. Elena Milashina was diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral injury, her fingers were broken. Lawyer Nemov, in addition to injuries, was stabbed,” the statement says.
“I appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and other law enforcement agencies to immediately take measures to search for and detain those who ordered and perpetrators of the attack on Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov,” Radin emphasized.
Let us recall that earlier it was reported that in Chechnya unknown persons beat journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov, who flew in to pronounce the verdict on Zarema Musaeva, the wife of former judge Saydi Yangulbaev, in the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the attack requires “quite vigorous measures.”
Source: Rosbalt
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