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MOSCOW — The head of a Russian non-governmental organization says a group of activists and journalists has been attacked and their vehicle set afire near the border of Chechnya and a neighboring republic. MOSCOW — A group of men attacked a small bus carrying foreign and Russian journalists and activists from a non-governmental organization Wednesday near the border of Chechnya, beating the occupants and setting the vehicle on fire.
Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee For Prevention of Torture and a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council, said on the council’s website that the attack took place Wednesday when assailants in three cars blocked a bus carrying activists and journalists on a media trip near the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia. The attack took place when assailants in three cars blocked the vehicle, Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee For Prevention of Torture and a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council, said on the council’s website.
The attackers beat the participants and set the bus on fire. Timur Rakhmatulin, the NGO’s regional leader, told The Associated Press that two of the journalists and the bus’s driver were hospitalized, but their conditions weren’t immediately known.
Russian news reports said the journalists included reporters from Sweden and Norway. Sweden’s state broadcaster SR said its Moscow correspondent was among those who were attacked. The journalists on the trip included a reporter for Swedish state radio and one from Norway’s Ny Tid newspaper, Rakhmatulin said. There were also reporters from major Russian broadsheet Kommersant, as well as Russia’s New Times and Mediazon, he said.
Kommersant quoted the Mediazon journalist, Yegor Skovoroda, as saying the attack took place near the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, just west of the border with Chechnya.
“They yelled ‘You’re supporting terrorists, the killers of our fathers.’ We laid on the floor but they began to scream for us to get out,” he was quoted as saying.
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