Susanne Scholl

Although their documents were completely in order, ORF (Austrian public channel) journalist Susanne Scholl and her team have been arrested on the 24th of november in Chechnya.

They were interrogated by officers of the Federal Security Service. They were released few hours after. Their video was seized.
“This is an inacceptable attempt of intimidation and a limitation of the freedom of expression vis-a-vis foreign journalists in Russia,” says Rubina Möhring, president of ROG and vice-president of RSF Intl.

After the most recent murders of the outspoken journalist and Chechnya expert Anna Politkovskaya and the responsible editor for economy of the Russian press agency Itar Tass Anatoli Woronin, which are still unsolved, the climate in Russia seems to worsen with respect to foreign journalists.

Susanne Scholl had been working, among others, on a documentary about Anna Politkovskaya which will be broadcasted on the channel 3 satellite on December the 8th.

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