Russian Federation: Bring to justice those responsible for the violent assault on lawyers and human rights defenders

Russian Federation: Bring to justice those responsible for the violent assault on lawyers and human rights defenders

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today condemned a series of violent assaults against lawyers and a journalist in the Russian Federation.

The assaults targeted lawyer Alexander Nemov and Yelena Milashina, a journalist of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta in Chechnya, followed by another attack on lawyer Elena Ponomareva in Moscow. They are part of a worrying broader pattern of violence against persons for carrying out their important professional functions as lawyers and journalists.

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