Chechnya (Russia)
Campaigns and Advocacy
10 February 2012
The organisation will host mirror sites of the Sri Lankan online newspaper Lanka-e-News and the Chechen magazine Dosh.
From the Communiqué
20 October 2010

A Russian editor who has valiantly addressed the conflicts in the Caucasus - despite a recent kidnapping attempt - is this year's winner of the International Publisher Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Prize. Israpil Shovkhalov, editor-in-chief of the quarterly magazine "Dosh", won the 2010 prize for his "exemplary courage in upholding freedom to publish." A special award will also go to Turkish publisher Irfan Sanci.
19 August 2009

The bullet-riddled bodies of a Chechen activist and her husband were found in the trunk of their car in Grozny last week, a day after they were kidnapped. Meanwhile, in neighbouring Dagestan, a well-known investigative journalist was killed. IFEX members ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch and others say that the violence is a sign that in Russia today, especially in Chechnya, independent voices continue to be ruthlessly silenced.
22 July 2009

Natalia Estemirova, an award-winning activist and journalist dedicated to exposing the human rights abuses of Russian authorities and security forces in Chechnya, was brazenly abducted and shot to death last week. The assassination was reported on by the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) Human Rights Watch (HRW), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and several other IFEX members.
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