Journalist who exposed anti‑LGBT violence and human rights lawyer attacked in Chechnya. What we know about the assault on Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov
Alexander Nemov, Elena Milashina, and the Human Rights Ombudsman in Chechnya, Mansur Soltayev. Photo: Crew against Torture Early in the morning on July 4 in Grozny, Chechnya, men in balaclavas attacked Elena Milashina, a reporter with Novaya Gazeta, and lawyer Alexander Nemov. Both were brutally beaten and threatened with death.