Russia Web site owner killed after arrest

The owner of an opposition Internet news site in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region was shot and killed Sunday after being detained by police.

Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the www.Ingushetiya.ru Web site, died Sunday after being detained by police.

(Credit: Ingushetiya.ru)

Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the www.Ingushetiya.ru Web site, was arrested at Nazran airport in southern Russia after disembarking a flight, according to a statement by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Yevloyev was later found dumped on the side of the road, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, the news site's deputy editor, Ruslan Khautiyev, told the Associated Press. Yevloyev later died at a hospital, Khautiyev said.

Yevloyev had angered the region's Kremlin-backed administration with bold criticism of police treatment of civilians in the region, the AP reported. A court in June accused him of spreading "extremist" statements and ordered him to close his site, but it reappeared under a different name.

The Russian prosecutor general's office said it would open an investigation into the "incident."

"While police officers were attempting to transfer M. Yevloyev to an Interior Ministry office, an incident occurred," said Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the investigative committee of the prosecutor general's office, according to the Interfax news agency. "M. Yevloyev received a gunshot wound to the temple area."

A lawyer for Yevloyev ridiculed the explanation and said police dumped Yevloyev on a road after shooting him.

"It was in no way a mistake," the lawyer, Kaloi Akhilgov, told Reuters.

Reporters Without Borders said it was "outraged" by Yevloyev's death.

"His death must not go unpunished," the media group said in a statement. "It is vital that the international community, especially the European Union, should demand to know what really happened and who was responsible."

Yevloyev is the latest high-profile journalist to be killed in Russia in recent years. Anna Politkovskaya, who covered the war in Chechnya, was shot to death in the entryway to her Moscow apartment in 2006.

[sharptoolguyme]

Can You say Soviet Union tatics. Putin wants nothing more than to go back to the old days & ways, which is obvious by the number of of opponents who have died

[Rants&Raves]

Dude, update your references; Putin is no longer President. Medvedem is. Still the Gazprom gang though.

[Rants&Raves]

Typo: Medvedev

[Lerianis]

Putin, isn't the President anymore, but he is still pulling the strings of the Medvedev guy, so Medvedev is just following Putin's orders. Really, we need to start stepping in with Russia and putting severe pressure on them, because they are now devolving back to the old Soviet Union days, as sharptoolguyme said.

[kuei12]

Yeah, it's much better in america where the cops gang up on your and club you while you're cuffed. Don't like that? How bout if they just taser you to death.
Cracks me up when people condem Russia while forgetting the same thing is going in in their own back yards. Stupid americans

[drukenhard]

don't you hate it when you accidentally shoot someone in the temple and then accidentally dump them in a ditch and drive off.

Can't count the number of times this has happened to me

[jestlv]

Looks like the Soviet Union is back. Good, I kinda missed those guys.

[professionaladventurer]

He was resisting, so after a brief struggle when he tried to escape he was tazered during his escape attempt and in the resulting confusion was left by the side of the road. At this time we believe he was approached by some Georgian territorials who are clearly backed by the USA and they executed him on orders from President Bush to make Mr. Putin look bad, shame on USA, we will not tolerate this act.

[Abdullasaeed]

hey how about the stupid freedom loving neocons who care too much about evil and good.
they are crazy unlike Putin and Obama and the rest of the nuanced realists of the world.
don't u think they (the neocons and not the conmen) killed this journalist to elect McCain and Palin.
wud be interesting to see the left react.

[Lerianis]

Well, most of those 'neocons' do not 'love freedom'. They love THEIR version of freedom, where everyone kowtows to their god, adheres to their morality, and does whatever they are told to do by their betters.
I have to agree that most of them are borderline insane. The fact is that 'good' and 'evil' (outside of killing someone else, forcing someone else with physical force into a sexual situation, and stealing from someone else) are totally viewpoint and no one has the right, outside of those three things I listed, to force their views of 'good' and 'evil' on someone else.

[softwaredesignengineer]

Typical islamic response - it's either the Israelies or the Bush administration.

For once, call a spade a spade.

And this is the most idiotic conspiracy theory I have read yet - McCain and Palin did it to reelect the neocons. Get a book with pictures and crayons and make good use of your time.

[victor_sf]

I think somebody is trying to frame the Kremlin's administration. Do you really think they are so stupid and, above all, unsophisticated? KGB has much more refined and secretive methods of eliminating people.

[Lerianis]

victor_sf..... the thing is that they don't want to be 'secretive' and 'refined' in their own country. They WANT everyone to know who killed this man, so that the other people in this country are fearful of them and won't stand up to them for fear of being killed.

[softwaredesignengineer]

Dear, this is not the US where officials can be held accountable and face justice. In Russia, there is no such thing. The KGB during the soviet era was no different. Kill anyone who opposes you and no one will dare challenge these murders.

[jrzshor]

when doing this just scares more people, then doing this does not need to be sophisticated.

[merson1]

victor_sf,

When the Russians want to make a point they are about as subtle as a kick in the groin. Never overestimate their sensitivities - I doubt that the word exists in Russian.

EM

[Lerianis]

Yeah, the word 'sensitive' really doesn't exist in the Russian language, judging by how brusque even their WOMEN are.

[softwaredesignengineer]

And all those haterz that say that America is going down and down in terms of freedom. What a load of BS. In most other countries in the east, the state can just kill you and no one can say a word.

All these lefties and commies our countries need to do their charitable work in places like Russia instead.

[georgiarat]

Given the fact that the Democrats want to silence all opposition speech in this country, re Fairness Doctrine and the bullying tactics being used against reporters and stations by the Obama campaign I wonder how long before we start having such incidents in this country.

[NotGoingToTakeItAnymore]

What a crock. There's a difference between opposition speech and publication of blatant lies. Your attempt to associate this incident with the direction Obama wants to take this country is so hilarious. You think the world has been blind to the shameless disregard of the Bill of Rights by the Bush administration?

[jrzshor]

more coming. get used to it.

[ballmerisanape]

NotGoingToTakeItAnymore ,

Wait until Biden gets his way.. start building your aluminum hat now.. the Patriot Act was just the beginning.

[Belinus]

Georgiarat:

We already live there. Remember to question Bush is to support terrorism.

[jrzshor]

i am sure that those policeman are quite distraught that this man stepped in front of a speeding bullet. it his fault for sure!

[Navymansk2]

Boy, who wouldn't be surprised by this development! Its an OnGoing thing in USSR, as well as playing the Nazi game in Georgia. They learned well form the Nazi, and are no better!

As the world sets by, Russia will continue its reclaim of all of its old world countries, as they did in WWII.

I think they need to put the hammer and sickle, back into the center of the new Russian flag. Sorry to say these people have no idea what real freedom is.

Sorry to say the EU, Nato, and the UN have out lived there time, and are helpless is stopping them! Why wasn't there a warning in troop buildups on the boarder, prio to the invasion of Georgia? Something was array! :}

[Rants&Raves]

array -> awry. The world sets by -> The world sits by (... and that still makes no sense).

The invaded countries are not EU members, so that statement is barely relevant. The EU is an economic and political union, and as such is beating the FTA nations at our own games. That makes them kind of relevant.

Can't find any redeeming value in your comments. None whatsoever.

[SeizeCTRL]

Starting to feel like the cold war is heating back up. Ah the good old days! I get warm fuzzies just thinking about the KGB.

[bignumone]

I think this sounds like what happens when you don't agree with Obama.
You get crucified by Obamaniacs!

[bignumone]

Or with Nancy Pelosi, in the Pelosi Politburo!

Watch your rights, Americans, this is what happens when you move toward the federalist-style socialism that Obama and Pelosi want!