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Rally to protect journalists held in downtown Moscow

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About 150 people gathered in downtown Moscow on Sunday to hold a rally in defense of Russian journalists and protest against the arbitrariness of investigation.

About 150 people gathered in downtown Moscow on Sunday to hold a rally in defense of Russian journalists and protest against the arbitrariness of investigation.

The rally was attended by Khimki Pravda editor-in-chief Mikhail Beketov who had been severely beaten in November 2008 for his writing on sensitive social issues, including plans to build a road from Moscow to St. Petersburg through a centuries-old Khimki forest. In his articles, Beketov wrote against the road construction.

Another Russian journalist, Oleg Kashin, was brutally attacked on November 6. Kashin, who works for the respected Kommersant daily, suffered severe head and leg injuries. It is widely assumed that Kashin was also targeted in revenge for his writing against the road construction across the Khimki forest.

The attack on Kashin made the headlines in Russia for days. President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed that whoever was behind the attack "will be punished regardless of their position, place in society or accomplishments."

There have been scores of unsolved killings of reporters in Russia in recent years, including most infamously, that of Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce Kremlin critic, who was shot dead in her apartment block on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's birthday four years ago.

MOSCOW, November 21 (RIA Novosti) 

 

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