Journalist/Kremlin critic killed in police custody

[Joker85]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7590719.stm

The owner of an internet site critical of the Russian authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia has been shot dead in police custody.

Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the ingushetiya.ru site, was a vocal critic of the region's administration.

The Russian prosecutor's office said an investigation into the death had been launched, Russia media report.

A post on Yevloyev's site says he was detained by police after landing at the airport of the main town, Nazran.

The website owner was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.

Reports quoting local police said Yevloyev had tried to seize a policeman's gun when he was being led to a vehicle. A shot was fired and Yevloyev was injured in the head.

Fierce critic

Yevloyev was a thorn in the side of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov, a former KGB general.

His website reported on alleged Russian security force brutality in Ingushetia, an impoverished province of some half a million people, mostly Muslims, which is now more turbulent than neighbouring Chechnya.

President Zyazikov had been on the same flight as Yevloyev.

Ingushetia borders Chechnya and has suffered from overflowing unrest.

There is a low-level insurgency, with regular small-scale ambushes against police and soldiers.

In June 2008, the Human Rights Watch group accused Russian security forces there of carrying out widespread human rights abuses.

HRW said it had documented dozens of arbitrary detentions, disappearances, acts of torture and extra-judicial executions.

I guess they are not even bothering to try and not make it obvious anymore.

[danzig]

Funny how critics always seem to turn up with bullets in their head, dead from poison or disappear....

[KaerMorhen]

Funny how critics always seem to turn up with bullets in their head, dead from poison or disappear....

it is long lasting tradition or russian democracy

[Applesmack]

it is long lasting tradition or russian democracy

Says the guy with the Georgian flag in his signature I wouldn't talk about democracy if I were you if you support Georgia.

Yeah, I was wondering this too. How 'coincidental' the bullet hit the temple where it would prove fatal...

yet another example of Putin silencing the opposition.

Do we need a weekly example now for Russians to open their eyes or is monthly enough?

I was wondering why you are such a conspiracy theorist...

[KaerMorhen]

Says the guy with the Georgian flag in his name I wouldn't talk about democracy if I were you if you support Georgia.

sure I support Georgia and Georgians against Kremlin wet dreams of empire they had once for a while.

[Applesmack]

sure I support Georgia and Georgians against Kremlin wet dreams of empire they had once for a while.

Georgians? Really? Which ones? The whole country is divided. If Shakasvilli was democratic, he would not be trying to opress and force SOuth Ossetia and Abkhazia under his rule. He is completely straight out fascist and nationalistic. He doesn't care what the people want, he cares what NATO wants, because to get in NATO, he has to solve his "territorial problems". Georgia slaughtered 150 of their own people in their illegal attack on South Ossetia, also killing 10 Russian Peacekeepers. It deserves MUCH more than what Russia has actually done to it. I think Putin is took kind personally. What RUssia did is what Georgia should have done in the first place, accept the referendum.

[EpicJon]

way to go again Russia, could they make their reputation any more worse?

-EJon

[Vladimir Lenin]

way to go again Russia, could they make their reputation any more worse?

-EJon

Breaking News:

Russia begins slaughtering all puppies in Russia and Georgia.

[Cluny the Scourge]

Breaking News:

Russia begins slaughtering all puppies in Russia and Georgia.

I would not put it past them, if they considered those puppies were fostering unpatriotic sympathies and stirring seditious dissent.

[Elrond]

Its hardly surprising considering the Russian governments attitude towards critics. At least its been admitted (sort of) its better than 'Magomed Yevloyev committed suicide today, neighbours found him dead from two gun shot wounds in the forehead'.

If independent journalists cannot write against the government without being killed then Russia's not a real democracy.

[EpicJon]

lol good one + rep

-EJon

[Dash]

How much longer are you going to bag on Russia? 'All in all, it's all just another brick in the wall.'

[Vladimir Lenin]

How much longer are you going to bag on Russia? All in all, it's all just a brick in the wall.

All in all, it's just another few hundred slaughtered.

[Dash]

All in all, it's just another few hundred slaughtered.

A few hundred? I don't think one guy is a few hundred. If you're talking about the S. Ossetian conflict(duh.. ) both sides were guilty of killing civilians.

[Joker85]

How much longer are you going to bag on Russia?

I will stop attacking them for murdering dissidents and journalists when they stop murdering dissidents and journalists.

[Dash]

I will stop attacking them for murdering dissidents and journalists when they stop murdering dissidents and journalists.

Sorry then, I said the wrong thing. Lemme rephrase...

When are you just going to make one ing thread about all of this .

[Vladimir Lenin]

Sorry then, I said the wrong thing. Lemme rephrase...

When are you just going to make one ing thread about all of this .

I'm a long time supporter of one thread called:

Russia doing Evil.

It would be so much simpler.

[Dash]

I'm a long time supporter of one thread called:

Russia being Evil.

It would be so much simpler.

I agree it would be simpler, because I'm honestly tired of coming on here every couple days and seeing -gasp- a brand new topic on why Russia is eeeeviiiiillll. D;

I'm 100% positive I'm not the only one either. Just make the one ing thread already.
But don't worry, in about 6 months, I'm sure all of this anti-Russian will be done, or at least severely lessened.

[EpicJon]

Then that must be a pretty deformed and degraded brick..

-EJon

[EpicJon]

of course, that may be acceptable by Russian standards, but not U.S. and N.A.T.O. standards.

-EJon