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| Subject: Rights Campaigner Is Beaten in Moscow Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:45 am | |
| MOSCOW — The leader of a prominent Russian human rights group was beaten by a group of men outside his Moscow home late on Tuesday night, in an attack that the police and colleagues say was very likely linked to his professional activities.
Lev A. Ponomaryov, the director of the Moscow-based organization For Human Rights and a leader in the new political opposition movement, Solidarity, was the latest victim of violence in Russia against well-known people involved in human rights issues. Like the others, Mr. Ponomaryov was a frequent critic of the Kremlin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/world/europe/02russia.html |
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