Russian police in standoff over journalist Yevloyev's death

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Source: Reuters

NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Police in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region were in a standoff on Monday with protesters angered by the death of a leading opposition journalist who was shot in the head while in police custody.

Magomed Yevloyev, owner of opposition Internet site www.ingushetiya.ru, is the most high-profile Russian journalist to be killed since investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot outside her Moscow apartment in October 2006.

Police said Yevloyev, who was a leading opponent of Ingushetia's Kremlin-backed leader Murat Zyazikov, was shot by accident when he tried to grab an officer's gun. His supporters and human rights groups said they did not believe that version of events.

A Reuters reporter in Ingushetia's biggest city Nazran said riot police were lined up on a central square where about 250 people, some of them armed with wooden sticks and truncheons, were demanding Zyazikov leave his post....

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Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media freedom, group, said the explanations given by the Ingush authorities for Yevloyev's death made no sense. "We are outraged by the death of Yevloyev," it said. "His death must not go unpunished."...

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL143138920080901

[pegleg]

1. I believe that well over 200 journalists have been killed over the

past few years since the crackdown began.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. That may look like the old times

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