Editor and Nobel Prize winner Dmitry Muratov attacked
Dmitry Muratov, a voice fighting for freedom of expression, editor of newspaper Novaya Gazeta and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been attacked by a person pouring acid red paint over him on a train.
The male attacker shouted, “Muratov, this is for our boys”, Muratov tweeted. My eyes are burning terribly, Muratov said.
Muratov recently announced that his newspaper will suspend publishing until the war in Ukraine is ended. This decision was taken after a second warning from the Russian authorities, The newspaper had earlier stopped reporting about the war as authorities had threatened the newspaper that insisted on calling the war in Ukraine a “war” despite authorities saying this word could not be used to descrive “the special military operation”.
Muratov was one of several journalists who on April 1, 1993 founded Novaya Gazeta that since has been a publication fighting for independent journalism despite sometimes difficult pressure from authorities.
Muratov was 2021 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize together with Maria Ressa, co-publisher of the Rappler in the Philippines, for their fight to defend freedom of expression.
shared in a Tweet:
❗️ An unknown person attacked Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, right in the train carriage
“They poured oil paint with acetone in the compartment. My eyes are burning terribly. <…> He shouted: “Muratov, here’s one for our boys”. https://t.co/y37skERIyC
— Novaya Gazeta. Europe (@novayagazeta_eu) April 7, 2022
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