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Owner of Russian opposition website killed
The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region was shot dead on Sunday after police detained him, his colleagues said.
- Agencies
- Published: 17:18 August 31, 2008
Nazran, Russia: The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's troubled Ingushetia region was shot dead on Sunday after police detained him, his colleagues said.
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the Ingushetiya.ru Internet site, was a vocal critic of the region's Kremlin-backed administration which is accused by critics of crushing dissent and free speech.
Interfax quoted the Russian prosecutor's office as saying an investigation into the death had been launched.
Ingusheti is an Autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, on the northern slopes of the Caucasus mountains.
A posting on Yevloyev's site - which has been the subject of repeated official attempts to close it down - said he was shot after police detained him when he landed in Ingushetia's airport.
It said he was taken to hospital but died from his injuries. The site also called on "all those who are not indifferent" to his killing to gather for a demonstration in Nazran, Ingushetia's biggest town.
"A preliminary investigation has been launched into the death of M. Yevloyev," Interfax news agency quoted Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the investigations unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow as saying.
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