A gaggle of United Nations (UN) human rights specialists called on the Russian Federation on Friday to research and produce to justice the perpetrators of a violent assault towards journalist Yelena Milashina and human rights lawyer Alexander Nemov. The incident occurred on July 4 within the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Milashina was masking and Nemov was collaborating within the trial of Zarema Musaeva, the mom of exiled opposition activists who challenged the chief of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Milashina, who works for the impartial investigative information service Novaya Gazeta, and Nemov had been attacked by a gaggle of masked assailants who beat them with golf equipment and kicked them, taking their telephones, smashing their tools and destroying their paperwork. Throughout the assault, the perpetrators shouted at Milashina and Nemov to depart and never report something. The 2 suffered extreme accidents and had been hospitalized in Grozny. Milashina was identified with a closed head harm and misplaced consciousness periodically. Her fingers had been broke and her physique was lined in bruise. As well as, Milashina’s head was shaved by the attackers and doused with sensible inexperienced, which is a type of humiliation towards ladies within the North Caucasus.
UN human rights specialists condemned the assault for example of disregard for the protection of journalists and human rights activists within the Russian Federation, significantly in Chechnya. Milashina’s investigative work follows within the footsteps of two different journalists, Anna Politkovskaya and Natalia Estemirova, who had been murdered in Chechnya to silence their investigative work.
The specialists additionally expressed concern concerning the ongoing threats to Milashina and Nemov’s lives and well-being as a consequence of their work. They called on Russia to finish the present local weather of impunity and guarantee a secure surroundings for journalists and human rights activists and attorneys consistent with its worldwide obligations and commitments.
Source / Picture: jurist.org
