Award-winning Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina has a long record of covering human rights abuses in the region, and this is not the first time she has been targeted.
Ednews reports via foreign media that a prominent Russian journalist and a lawyer were attacked by armed assailants in Chechnya on Tuesday, the Memorial human rights group said.
Elena Milashina — a leading journalist for the Novaya Gazeta independent newspaper, which lost its license in Russia— was traveling to the Chechen capital Grozny from the local airport with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, when they were attacked on Tuesday.
The pair were blocked by several cars as their vehicle left the airport. Masked assailants physically attacked them and broke their equipment. Both were subsequently hospitalized in Grozny.