Russia - Newspaper editor badly beaten in his Sochi home by intruders

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Arkady Lander, the editor of the independent newspaper Mestnaya (Local), was badly injured in a brutal asault by two unidentified men in his apartment in the southern city of Sochi on 26 April. The press freedom organisation urges the authorities to do everything possible to shed light on this attack and bring those responsible to justice. But it fears that impunity will again prevail as it has in virtually all other cases of violence (...)

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