Another attack on a human rights worker in Grozny
Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, was attacked today in Grozny, according to one of his colleagues, Dmitry Utukin. Kalyapin was reportedly beat up and pelted with eggs outside the “Grozny-City” hotel. Immediately beforehand, Utukin says the hotel manager and several armed police officers came to Kalyapin's room and evicted him from the hotel. As he was exiting the building, Kalyapin was attacked.