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03-10-2016, 08:17 AM
Masked men brutally attack journalists in Russia, set fire to their car
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A group of masked men attacked a minivan carrying foreign and Russian journalists and activists Wednesday near the border of Chechnya, beating them with clubs and lighting the vehicle on fire.
The attack took place when some 20 masked assailants in three cars blocked the minivan on a highway linking the **rth Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia, said Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee for Prevention of Torture and a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council.
SEE ALSO: Chechen leader literally puts Putin critics in crosshairs on Instagram (http://mashable.com/2016/02/01/chechen-leader-puts-putin-critics-in-crosshairs/)
Timur Rakhmatulin, the NGO's regional leader, told The Associated Press that two of the journalists and the bus driver were hospitalized, but their conditions weren't immediately k**wn. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/journalists-beaten-russia/)
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A group of masked men attacked a minivan carrying foreign and Russian journalists and activists Wednesday near the border of Chechnya, beating them with clubs and lighting the vehicle on fire.
The attack took place when some 20 masked assailants in three cars blocked the minivan on a highway linking the **rth Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia, said Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Committee for Prevention of Torture and a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council.
SEE ALSO: Chechen leader literally puts Putin critics in crosshairs on Instagram (http://mashable.com/2016/02/01/chechen-leader-puts-putin-critics-in-crosshairs/)
Timur Rakhmatulin, the NGO's regional leader, told The Associated Press that two of the journalists and the bus driver were hospitalized, but their conditions weren't immediately k**wn. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/journalists-beaten-russia/)
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