Subject: [CivilSoc] RFE/RL Journalist Murdered in Moscow
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 21:54:44 EDT
The following press release was issued by CPJ, the Committee to
Protect Journalists, based in New York.
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Journalist murdered in Moscow
Russia's Media Ministry announced RFE/RL hostile to the state
CPJ News, 22 September 2000
New York, September 22, 2000 - Late last night, Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Iskandr Khatloni was attacked
in his Moscow apartment by an unknown, axe-wielding assailant.
Khatloni was struck twice in the head, according to the Moscow bureau
of RFE/RL. He then stumbled onto the street and collapsed, to be
found later by a passerby. Khatloni died later that night in Moscow's
Botkin Hospital. Local police have opened a murder investigation.
Khatloni had worked since 1996 as a Moscow-based journalist for the
Tajik service of the U.S.-funded RFE/RL, which beams daily news
programming to Tajikistan.
A RFE/RL spokeswoman said Friday that at the time of his death,
Khatloni was known to be working on stories about the Russian
military's human-rights abuses in Chechnya. The topic is
controversial in Russia; earlier this year a senior official in
Russia's Media Ministry announced that RFE/RL was "hostile to our
state."
CPJ is very concerned about the death of Iskandr Khatloni. We are
currently investigating the circumstances of his death to determine
whether it was related to his journalistic work.
CPJ News, 22 September 2000
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