MOSCOW — The European commissioner for human rights urged Moscow Friday to investigate a violent assault on a journalist and a lawyer in Russia's province of Chechnya. Milashina long has exposed human rights violations in Chechnya. The regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry in Chechnya said it was looking into the incident. The Kremlin has relied on Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov to keep the North Caucasus region stable after two devastating separatist wars. International rights groups have accused Kadyrov's feared security forces of extrajudicial killings, torture and abductions of dissenters.

Source: International New York Times February 07, 2020 12:22 UTC