Time to end Chechnya’s impunity after threats to Novaya Gazeta

litwin · Apr 20, 2017

Reporters Without Borders still have a hope, that a weak ,old, rutted czar Putin can stop the young, ambitious czar kadyrov. most of muscovite experts say that kadyrov is stronger figure than putin, my question, will kadyrov exterminate all gays in Chechnya? and who he will exterminate next?

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is very concerned about the safety of the staff of the independent Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta, who have been threatened by the Chechen authorities ever since it reported that gays are being persecuted in Chechnya. RSF calls on the Russian federal authorities to end the impunity enjoyed by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime.

A public meeting was held in the central mosque in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a few days after Novaya Gazeta’s story on 1 April about the arrests and mistreatment of a hundred of suspected homosexuals in Chechnya, a story that has been picked up by media all over the world.

In the course of the meeting in Grozny, which was widely covered by the Chechen broadcast media, Adam Shakhidov, an adviser to President Kadyrov, accused Novaya Gazeta of defamation and referred to its journalists as “the enemies of our faith and our fatherland.”

Twenty-four Chechen religious officials and other opinion makers signed a five-point resolution describing the newspaper’s story as an “absolute lie (...) that besmirches the honour and reputation of Muslims, the inhabitants of Chechnya and Russian citizens” and warning the public that circulating it would be a “terrible sin.”

“We pledge that the true instigators will eventually be punished, wherever they are and whoever they are, and that there will be no statute of limitations on this punishment,” the resolution added.

Novaya Gazeta responded that the resolution “encourages religious fanatics to retaliate against journalists.” And indeed, threats quickly began to appear on social networks.

In an interview for the Washington Post on 15 April, the journalist who wrote the story, Elena Milashina, said she was planning to flee Russia temporarily. Radio Echo of Moscow news editor Alexei Venediktov was threatened as well by the Chechen authorities for defending his fellow journalists.
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