Journalists Imprisoned in Russia (2)
(as of 12-31-97)
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Krzysztof Galinski, Mac Pariadka and Zycie Marek Kurzyniec, Marscho and Zycie  Imprisoned: December 17, 1997 Galinski and Kurzyniec were kidnapped in Chechnya along with three other Polish citizens by unknown assailants while trying to deliver a shipment of food aid. All five undertook the mission on behalf of the National Federation of Anarchists in Poland, of which they are members.     Galinski is an editor with the Gdansk-based Mac Pariadka, the country’s largest national anarchist monthly magazine. Kurzyniec edits his own small political bulletin Marscho, also in Gdansk.     Although their primary mission was the food aid delivery, both carried press credentials from Zycie, a national daily newspaper in Gdansk. They had agreed to a request from the editor to write free-lance articles about the situation in Chechnya upon their return.     The National Federation of Anarchists reported that all five hostages were safe as of mid-January. Rumors that the hostage-takers demanded ransom from Zycie and the anarchists’ group could not be confirmed.     The kidnapping is the latest in a long series of abductions of foreign journalists and aid workers in Chechnya, usually for ransom.

Please send appeals to: President Boris Yeltsin  The Russian Federation  Moscow, Russia  Fax: 011-7-095-224-0366  And also to:   President Aslan Maskhadov  The Chechen Republic  Grozny, Chechen Republic  Fax: 011-90-212-257-6817

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