PEN America Issues Statement on Attacking of Prominent Russian Journalist Milashina in Chechnya
February 08, 2020
February 08, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 -- PEN America issued the following statement by Summer Lopez, senior director of Free Expression Programs:
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- PEN America calls assault on Elena Milashina a direct threat to a free press
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Prominent Russian journalist Elena Milashina, who originally broke the story of the brutalization of gay men in Chechnya two years ago, was attacked Thursday at a hotel in the Chechen capital Grozny. She and human rights lawyer Mari . . .
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- PEN America calls assault on Elena Milashina a direct threat to a free press
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Prominent Russian journalist Elena Milashina, who originally broke the story of the brutalization of gay men in Chechnya two years ago, was attacked Thursday at a hotel in the Chechen capital Grozny. She and human rights lawyer Mari . . .