Makhackala/Nalchik/Agency Caucasus – A journalist was murdered in Dagestan and another seriously wounded in Kabardino-Balkaria–two events that came shortly after Magomed Yevloyev, a journalist and owner of the news website Ingushetiya.ru, was killed on Sunday while he was in police custody.
Telman Alishayev, a reporter of the Islamic television channel Chirkey, was hospitalized after he came under fire while he was in his car on Tuesday in the Separatornii district of Makhackala, capital of Dagestan. Alishayev died while he was in the hospital in Makhackala, said Mark Tolchinski, spokesman for the Interior Minister. He was known for his documentaries, especially the ones about Wahhabism.
Miloslav Bitokov, Executive Editor of the independent Gazeta Yuga, and his son, came under fire from three people, one of them masked, while Mitokov was parking his car outside his home in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Bitokov was given medical treatment in the hospital for his injury to the head as well as to his nose. Bitokov’s colleagues said that he received death threats because of he was critical in his writings of the local administrators.
ÖZ/FT
