{"id":92467,"date":"2012-05-30T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:12:50","slug":"moscow-radio-host-stabbed-after-anti-muslim-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92467","title":{"rendered":"Moscow radio host stabbed after “anti-Muslim” comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow journalist Sergei Aslanyan was stabbed repeatedly earlier this week<\/a>. Anslanyan, who specialises in motoring and hosts a programme\u00a0on state Mayak radio station, was attacked on 29 May after a stranger called him and asked to leave his\u00a0apartment\u00a0\u201cfor a talk\u201d. Aslanyan was attacked as he left the house. He managed to call an ambulance himself, and is now in a stable condition in hospital, where he is under police guard.<\/p>\n

Some of Aslanyan\u2019s colleagues believe the attack was caused by comments about the prophet Muhammad he made on a radio station. Sergei Arkhipov, head or radio at\u00a0VGTRK state holding, which owns Mayak radio, \u00a0said Aslanyan heard his attacker say \u201cYou dislike Allah\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Muslim society of Tatarstan had expressed concerns about Aslanyan\u2019s anti-Muslim comments in an appeal to Russia\u2019s general prosecutor\u2019s office. After the journalist was attacked, they condemned both the assault and premature conclusions about \u201cMuslim trace\u201d in the case. Their leader Rishat Khamidullin told journalists that Aslanyan was treated brutally and \u201csuch an attack after his insulting statements is no more than a provocation against the Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n

Attacks on journalists are common in Russia. In April Novaya Gazeta<\/a> reporter Elena Milashina was beaten near her house. In May three journalists of Novaya Gazeta branch in Ryazan were beaten. Another newspaper\u2019s reporter, Diana Khachatryan, alleged she was threatened by pro-Kremlin youth movements after publishing an article about the United Russia congress.<\/p>\n

The latest most scandalous attacks on journalists include the beatings of Kommersant\u2019s Oleg Kashin<\/a>,\u00a0and Khimki Truth’s Mikhail Beketov<\/a>, and the murders of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya<\/a> and Natalya Estemirova<\/a>,\u00a0who wrote columns for the same paper while working for Memorial human rights centre. In the vast majority of these cases, no one has been brough to justice.<\/p>\n

Freedom House placed\u00a0Russia at 172 out of 197 countries for press freedom this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moscow journalist Sergei Aslanyan was stabbed repeatedly earlier this week. Anslanyan, who specialises in motoring and hosts a programme\u00a0on state Mayak radio station, was attacked on 29 May after a stranger called him and asked to leave his\u00a0apartment\u00a0\u201cfor a talk\u201d. Aslanyan was attacked as he left the house. He managed to call an ambulance himself, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[346,2752,1229,727,7349,4680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}