NEWS

Russian journalist severely beaten
Mikhail 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. Read more here
18 Nov 08

Mikhail 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.

Read more here