Ms Milashina has spent years investigating purported human rights abuses in Chechnya. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Armed masked men attacked and seriously injured a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer in the Russian region of Chechnya on Tuesday morning after forcing their car to stop, the journalist, her employer and rights groups said.
“It was a classic kidnapping... They pinned down, threw him out of his car, got in, bent our heads down, tied my hands, knelt me down there, and put a gun to my head,” Ms Milashina told Mr Mansur Soltayev, a Chechen human rights official, as she lay in hospital in Grozny before being transferred. There was no immediate comment on the incident from the authorities in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim southern region ruled by Mr Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, who rose to power after two bloody wars that followed the 1991 Soviet breakup.Some Russian lawmakers and officials in Moscow condemned the attack which they said needed investigating.
Mr Kadyrov denies rights abuses, saying such allegations are fabricated by ill-wishers trying to discredit Chechnya and its authorities.
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