Russian journalist severely beaten
18 Nov 2008Mikhail Beketov, editor of Khimkinskaya Pravda and a prominent opponent of local authorities’ deforestation plans, was brutally beaten outside his house in Moscow by unidentified assailants on 13 November.
Beketov is still waiting for the decision in a libel case brought against him by local prosecutors in February.
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