Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned about the violent attacks on two journalists —Andrei Chelnokov (Андрей Челноков) and Boris Komarov (Борис Комаров) — that took place within the space of a week earlier this month in Novosibirsk, the capital of the Siberian Federal District.
The police are investigating the attacks in an attempt to determine the motives.
“The police must conduct thorough and transparent investigations into these shocking attacks on journalists, and should not rule out the possibility that they were linked to the victims’ work, especially as this currently seems the most likely explanation,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The impunity enjoyed by those who attack news providers must end.”
The organization added: “These attacks are symptomatic of a disturbing decline in freedom of information in Russia, which is also reflected in the persistent impunity for such attacks, prosecutions of journalists on trumped-up charges and the spate of repressive laws that have been adopted in the past few months.”
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