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Иван Трефилов; Марьяна Торочешникова
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"You have nothing to do in Grozny"
In Ingushetia, on the border with Chechnya, an attack on human rights defenders and journalists who rode in Grozny was attacked
In Ingushetia, the searches of unknowns are being conducted, who on Wednesday in the evening attacked human rights activists of the consolidated mobile group of the "Committee to Prevention torture", as well as to Russian and foreign journalists. According to the latest data, as a result of the attack, eight people were injured, four were hospitalized, their car was burned. Human rights activists and journalists were heading to Chechnya, who attacked, according to eyewitnesses, came from there and disappeared in the same direction.
The attack was committed on the territory of Ingushetia in the area of the administrative border with Chechnya. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, "at about 19:30 on the 595th kilometer of the Caucasus federal highway in the area of the city settlement of Sunzhe, the minibus was stopped in which a group of persons was located, the car was damaged."
The group of human rights activists of the consolidated mobile group in Chechnya was attacked, journalists and employees were beaten, the car is on Pic.twitter.com/ltmm2q6itk
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“We left the gas station-it was at 19:05 (I drew attention to the clock), and after about five minutes our driver sharply gave the brakes,” says the correspondent of the mediazone Yegor Skovoroda , “I looked forward and saw that some kind of passenger car was cut out. The glasses were rained down right away. It became clear that some people surrounded our micro-nootobus and hit the glasses, and they hit the glasses, a Having broken them, they began to beat those who were inside with sticks.
According to Alexandrina Elagina from The New Times, who attacked at least fifteen. “They pursued the goal of intimidating us, because they beat us to beat, but if they wanted to do something more serious with us, they did it at once. It was such an awesome manifest that neither human rights activists nor reporters in Chechnya had nothing to do. Actually they said and shouted that we were protecting the terrorists and not our business to defend the interests of the Chechen people.”
After that, the attackers set fire to the car, and drove towards Grozny.
As a result of the attack, eight people were injured, three of which, according to Alexandrina Elagin, were hospitalized. This is a Norwegian correspondent Ny Tid Oststin Vincestdad, journalist of the Swedish radio Lena Maria Persson Loofgren, as well as a minibus driver who got more than others.
“The police arrived surprisingly quickly,” says Alexandina Elagina, “some of the guys were taken to the hospital, and some went to the police department, where they began to ask about the details of what happened. According to the police, literally 500 meters remained to the border with the Chechen Republic and they say to us: thank God that you didn’t have time to cross the border, because there would already be the jurisdiction of the formidable, and we would be the jurisdiction of the formidable. We know, including from the publications of colleagues, which can happen there in law enforcement agencies and how it is investigated. "
The Norwegian journalist Oiten Winstad did not get so sour ( Pic.twitter.com/wp6woigc3q
- Ruslan Leviev (@ruslanleviev) 10 March 2016
The Norwegian journalist, as a result of the attack, knocked out their teeth, cuts on his face and knee, bruises throughout the body. Gypsum was applied to the hospital
- Pavel Chikov (@pchikov) 9 March 2016
The representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia also reported that, “according to preliminary information, the attackers obviously knew that the human rights activists were heading to Chechnya, since they had already traveled there repeatedly, and the attackers of their hooligan vote on the administrative border of both republics, thus, could stop the next trip to Chechnya.” The injured human rights activists noted that the attackers left for the territory of this particular republic.
A message about an attack on a group of human rights activists and Russian and foreign journalists on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya on Wednesday evening appeared on the website of the Presidential Council for Human Rights . "At about 19.15, on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya, a group of unknown people who moved in three cars attacked a group of human rights activists from a consolidated mobile group and journalists," said Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the "Torture Prevention Committee". According to him, "journalists and human rights defenders are beaten, two were selected from mobile phones, the human rights activists were divided and set on fire."
In turn, Dmitry Utukin wrote a member of the Torture Prevention Committee in his Twitter microblog that "cars and human rights activists blocked cars." “They began to beat the glass and shout:“ Come out, terrorists. ”When everyone left the car, the attackers began to beat everyone. They set fire to the car,” the human rights activist wrote.
According to Dmitry Utukin, “journalists from Norway and Sweden were badly injured, as well as employees of the“ Torture Prevention Committee ”Ivan Zhiltsov and Ekaterina Vanuslova. “Katya’s leg hurts a lot, Ivan’s nose is broken,” the human rights activist said.
The attackers shouted "You have nothing to do in Grozny"
- Utukindmitry (@u2_keen) 9 March 2016
After the attack of unknown people on a minibus with human rights activists and journalists on the administrative border of Ingushetia with Chechnya on Wednesday evening, a criminal case was opened on the fact of hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and intentional destruction of property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The leadership of Chechnya called the words of the representative of the organization "Reporters without borders" Johan Bir about the connection of the attack on journalists and human rights activists who occurred the day before in Ingushetia, with statements by the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported to the Interfax agency by the press secretary of the Chechen leader Alvi Karimov. "Bir's statements indicate that he does not own the situation and does not have reliable information, so absurd things are indicated in a sharp and irresponsible form," Karimov said.
"Be cursed"
In turn, the Commissioner for Human Rights under the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov Nurdi Nukhazhiev , answering the question of the correspondent of the Rain television channel about who could organize an attack, said that the chairman of the Interregional Public Organization “Committee on the Prevention of Torture“ Igor Kalyapin could be involved. “I don’t blame him, I say that this is his handwriting,” the Ombudsman added.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway already demanded explanations from Russia about the attack on the journalist of the Ny Tid publication Eystin Windstad on the border with Chechnya, a representative of the department told Flashnord. According to the editor of Ny Tid Truls Lee, journalist E. Windstad has his teeth knocked out as a result of the attack, there are cuts on his face and knee, bruises throughout the body. "We demand from Russian colleagues explanations about what happened," said the representative of the Foreign Ministry of the kingdom.
On Wednesday, unknown also attacked the headquarters of the Consolidated Mobile Group of the "Committee for Prevention of torture" in Ingush Karabulak. According to Dmitry Utukin, people in camouflage clothing in masks armed with automatic weapons came to the office. “Armed people arrived in five cars to our apartment, one shot down a video surveillance camera at the entrance. Three others climbed through the window,” he wrote on Twitter.
- Utukindmitry (@u2_keen) 9 March 2016
“Our system administrator, who watched the office over the Internet, said that some armed people approached his doors,” explains Oleg Khabibrahmanov , a member of the torture committee, “some in camouflage, some in camouflage, with closed faces, in automatic weapons, were inspected, they discovered it, discovered them of video surveillance, led them out of them. Building the router, all the visual information that we received from the office, we know that after that we took something out of the office, or it is not clear what kind of people were, and we did not send our employees there, because it was simply unsuccessful at that time. The chevrons, although it is impossible to distinguish between the place very professionally, we, unfortunately, have the experience of the pogrom and arson of our offices in Grozny, and those civilian pogroms acted in a completely different way, they did not see their main task as much as possible in the actions of these people.
Today in Moscow, colleagues of journalists affected in Ingushetia hold a series of single pickets near the Building of the President of Russia, the corresponding invitation was posted on the social network Facebook
At the AP building pickets in defense of beaten journalists https://t.co/i9z9z9exc0bg periscope: https://t.co/xeivn49khl pic.twitter.com/jnjlhldtet
- present (@currenttimetv) 10 March 2016