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Article: 3 Moscow television journalists, activist beaten up in southern Russia
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- November 24, 2007
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Five armed men wearing masks and camouflage burst into a hotel in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia overnight and dragged away three Moscow television journalists and a human rights activist, police and the activist said Saturday.
Oleg Orlov, a member of the respected human rights group Memorial, said he and the three journalists were beaten and then abandoned in a field.
They made their way to a local police station and were later transferred to the police station in Nazran, the republic's main city, he said, speaking by telephone while still in custody.
Orlov was released midday but the journalists from REN TV were held until late Saturday afternoon. Police ...