Journalist Milashina and lawyer Nemov beaten in Chechnya – epa10725924 A handout picture made available by Sergei Babinets, the head of the Crew Against Torture shows Russian journalist Elena Milashina, injured as a result of an attack by unknown masked men, speaking by phone with the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova at a hospital in the Chechen capital Grozny, Russia, 04 July 2023. Milashina (she worked for Novaya Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta Europe) and a lawyer flew to Grozny to announce the verdict to Zarema Musaeva, wife of Saidi Yangulbaev, a former judge of the Republic’s Supreme Court. According to Nemov, on the way from the airport, their car was blocked by three cars with armed men. They were severely beaten and threatened with weapons, and the attackers also took away and destroyed all the equipment that Nemov and Milashina had with them. The attackers demanded that they leave the republic. EPA/SERGEI BABINETS / THE CREW AGAINST TORTURE/HANDOUT HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES