(GDF/IFEX) – The following is a GDF press release: **For information on the Ependiyev case, see IFEX alerts of 5 November and 1 November 1999** Moscow, November 10, 1999 Press-release Chechen Republic: second victim among journalists On October 29, on the route from Grozny to Nazran, during the Russian air bombing of a convoy of […]
(GDF/IFEX) – The following is a GDF press release:
**For information on the Ependiyev case, see IFEX alerts of 5 November and 1
November 1999**
Moscow, November 10, 1999
Press-release
Chechen Republic: second victim among journalists
On October 29, on the route from Grozny to Nazran, during the Russian air
bombing of a convoy of trucks, Ramzan Mezhidov, a freelance correspondent
with the Moscow TV company “TV Center”, was killed.
According to information provided to the Glasnost Defense Foundation by
Andrei Pavlov, correspondents’ network manager of the TV Center news
department, Ramzan Mezhidov, 32, a journalist from Grozny, departed for
Nazran in order to film a report for the TV company. In the morning, a
Russian Air Forces aircraft appeared over the convoy. Having dropped bombs,
a pilot supposedly noticed a man with a TV camera and shot him down with a
gun. The journalist was seriously wounded and taken to the Nazran hospital,
where he died because of loss of blood. He had two small children.
Ramzan Mezhidov is the second journalist who has been killed in Chechnya in
the course of the second military campaign. Supian Ependiyev, a
correspondent with the newspaper Groznensky Rabochiy, was wounded in Grozny
on October 27 and died on October 29.
