Elena Milachina works for the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. Like her lawyer, she was attacked by men when she arrived in this Caucasian republic where she was going to attend a trial.
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“Elena Milachina’s fingers are broken and she loses consciousness from time to time”says Memorial on Twitter. The human rights NGO announced on Tuesday July 4 that this Russian investigative journalist was hospitalized after being beaten up in Chechnya. His skull was shaved by his attackers and his face covered in dye.
Reporter for the independent newspaper Novaia Gazeta EuropeElena Milachina is a specialist of this Russian republic of the Caucasus. She came to cover the statement of the verdict in the trial of Zarema Moussaïeva. This woman, who faces up to five and a half years in prison, is the wife of an opponent of Ramzan Kadyrov, the dictator at the head of Chechnya since 2007.
Five “Novaya Gazeta” journalists killed
The car in which Elena Milachina was traveling was attacked by “armed men” according to Memorial, while she was en route to Grozny, the Chechen capital. His lawyer, who accompanied him, was also beaten up by this group. According to the newspaper, their phones were confiscated and their documents destroyed.
In February 2022, this journalist had already angered the Chechen regime, which considers her a “terrorist”. Novaia Gazeta Europe is one of the few media that still covers human rights violations in Chechnya. Five of its journalists were “murdered since Putin came to power”says Reporters Without Borders on Twitter.