Russian Human Rights Leader Attacked in Moscow

A prominent human-rights activist and the head of the Russian nonprofit group For Human Rights was beaten outside his home this week, The Washington Post reports.

Lev Ponomaryov, a former member of the Russian parliament who has criticized the government’s prosecution of the jailed oil tycoon and philanthropist Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said he had just stepped out of his car when strangers approached him. He said he was knocked to the ground and kicked and beaten by two or three men.

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