The Department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya opened a new criminal case because of the attack on Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov. Nemov himself and his lawyer Yevgeny Rubinshtein reported this to the Bar Association.
The case was opened under six articles: illegal deprivation of liberty committed by a group of persons by prior agreement, obstruction legitimate professional activities of journalists, combined with violence and damage or destruction of their property, robbery with the use of weapons, car theftwith the use of violence not dangerous to life or health, threatening to kill with bodily harm, as well as destruction documents.
According to Rubinshtein, the initiation of a case on the threat of murder, where the victim is a lawyer, is «a rare occurrence in law enforcement practice.» The taxi driver who was taking the lawyer and the journalist from the airport to the court was also recognized as a victim, the lawyer emphasized.
Initially, the department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya reported on the initiation of the case on July 5, the day after the attack. Then the attack was qualified under articles on causing harm to health of medium and mild severity (paragraphs “d”, “e”, “h” of Part 2 of Article 112, paragraphs “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code). Now all the criminal cases have been combined into one, while there are still no suspects in it.
On the night of July 5, Milashina and Nemov were taken to Moscow on a special plane and hospitalized in the Botkin hospital. Doctors recorded a closed craniocerebral injury and fractures of the hands in the journalist, multiple hematomas, bruises and a stab wound in the leg of the lawyer. They were discharged from the hospital on July 12.
The injured on the morning of July 4 were on their way from Grozny airport to the verdict on Zarema Musayeva. Men in balaclavas blocked their taxi, beat a journalist and a lawyer, threatened them with murder, put a gun to their heads, took away and destroyed their equipment. class=»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />In Chechnya, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov were severely beaten. Main