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| Former Basayev hostage involved in Moscow metro niqab conflict |
| 2025-04-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Former photojournalist Natalia Medvedeva, who was among the voluntary hostages of Basayev's detachment after the seizure of the hospital in Budyonnovsk, was arrested for seven days after a conflict with a Moscow metro passenger wearing a niqab. A group of militants led by Shamil Basayev seized the central hospital of Budyonnovsk on June 14, 1995. As a result of the terrorist attack, 129 people died. After negotiations on June 19, 1995, the terrorists released the remaining people, and the authorities agreed to stop military actions in Chechnya, allowing the militants to leave. The "Caucasian Knot" published a reference material "Terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk". 61-year-old Moscow resident Natalya Medvedeva, a former photojournalist for Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Ogonyok magazine, received seven days of administrative arrest after a conflict with a metro passenger wearing a niqab. The conflict began because Medvedeva considered the woman in a Muslim headdress "suspicious." She later explained that "after the terrorist attack she experienced, people in Muslim clothing in public places frighten her," Lenta.Ru writes. The video of the incident in the capital's metro was published by the Telegram channel "Beware, Moscow". One of the short recordings shows a woman with blond hair pulling a girl in a niqab and a long dress by the fabric of her headdress. At this moment, the man punches her, and two other men try to calm him down. The Muslim woman steps aside, adjusting her niqab. Her companion, beating the blonde, swears obscenely, shouting, in particular: "This is my honor! Whose hair are you touching?" According to eyewitnesses, the pensioner's tablet, on which she was filming herself being beaten, was broken. One of the passengers claims that the man beat the elderly woman and dragged her by the hair in the aisle of the train car, threw her to the floor and kicked her. The court also arrested the man who beat Medvedeva while defending the girl in the niqab. According to sources, the 21-year-old migrant from Tajikistan “admitted guilt and repented” in court and was sentenced to 13 days of arrest. During her work as a photojournalist, Natalya Medvedeva often went on business trips to Chechnya, where active military operations were taking place at the time. During the seizure of a hospital in Budyonnovsk by militants, she was wounded in the head by a shell fragment fired from a Russian armored personnel carrier, after which she went inside the hospital, and subsequently, along with a number of other journalists, accompanied Basayev and his detachment to Chechnya. Related: Budyonnovsk: 2024-12-12 War Without Victory Day: How Russia Almost Lost Chechnya Budyonnovsk: 2024-09-25 Defendants in Chechnya Terrorist Attack Case Sentenced to 24 and 25 Years in Prison Budyonnovsk: 2023-11-11 Human rights activists name possible motives for the detentions in Kadi-Yurt |
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