posted by zaina19 on November, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/26/2007 11:24 PM Journalists and human rights defender kidnapped Nazran/Agency Caucasus - Oleg Orlov, Chairman of Memorial, a widely-known Moscow-based human rights organization, and three journalists, fell victim to a series of kidnapping incidents in Ingushetia by Russian secret service and armed forces.
Some armed and masked men kidnapped on Friday night from Nazran Orlov and three other journalists of REN-TV, who are Artyom Visotski, Stanislv Goryachev and Karen Sahinov. After they were kidnapped in car from the Hotel of Assa to the district of Sunjen, they were beaten and ejected from the car. All personal things that the journalists had were usurped by the kidnappers. The four victims managed their way on their own to the nearest police station in the town of Nesterovskaya and let the police hear what had happened to them. One of the wounded journalists was reportedly said to have a critical health condition.
"We were forced one-by-one out of the hotel. After we were beaten up, we were told not to go to the region ever again. Then we were left somewhere unknown to us in the middle of the night," said Orlov. Interfax cited a police official when it reported that the kidnappers were some military men. (Agency Caucasus)
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