Elena Milashina, a prominent Russian journalist, was attacked during an attempted kidnapping.
New York Times“It’s a classic kidnapping, just like before,” Milashina told a Chechen human rights official in a hospital in Grozny, Novaya Gazeta. “It hasn’t happened in a while though. They threw out the taxi driver from the car, got inside, pushed our heads down, tied my hands, forced me to kneel, held a gun to my head. They seemed to be nervous though, they couldn’t even tie my hands well.
”In the past few years, Milashina has made headlines for her investigative reporting into human rights abuses. In 2017, she uncovered that gay men in Chechnya were being detained, tortured and killed because of their sexual orientation. Her investigation found that some men were tortured into giving the names and contacts of other gay men who were then detained, creating a cycle of torture.
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