Authorities must curb illegal activities against Novaya Gazeta journalists - Moscow Union of Journalists
MOSCOW. April 14 (Interfax) - The Moscow Union of Journalists has urged the authorities and law enforcement agencies to take action after threats were made against journalists from the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
A day earlier, the newspaper's editorial board released a statement saying their its journalists had received threats over an article about persecutions of gay people in Chechnya. Then the newspaper's website came under a DDoS attack, the board said on Facebook.
"The presidium of the Moscow Union of Journalists cannot remain silent and inactive in this situation," the Union's presidium said in a statement shared with Interfax on Friday.
"We insist that the Russian authorities, law enforcement agencies and the Russian Investigative Committee put an end to such activities that prevent our journalists from performing their professional duty and put the lives of media workers at risk," the document says.
