1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/CPJ fears silencing of critical Web site on Chechnya - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="f0MLctvPu2"><a href="https://cpj.org/2006/10/cpj-fears-silencing-of-critical-web-site-on-chechn/">CPJ fears silencing of critical Web site on Chechnya</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2006/10/cpj-fears-silencing-of-critical-web-site-on-chechn/embed/#?secret=f0MLctvPu2" width="600" height="338" title="“CPJ fears silencing of critical Web site on Chechnya” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="f0MLctvPu2" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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New York, October 13, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the closure today of a Russian nongovernmental organization which publishes an online newspaper regarded as one of the few reliable sources of news on Chechnya. The closure comes just six days after the murder in Moscow of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260