Yelena Maglevannaya (russian: Елена Маглеванная, born 15 December 1981) is a Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper

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, ''Free Speech'', in Volgograd. She requested a

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in May 2009. Maglevannaya has focused on cases of

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against Chechens. Maglevannaya published an article of a Chechen Zubayr Zubayraev (russian: Зубайр Зубайраев), detained in Volgograd since 2007, in Civitas.ru, Svobodnoye Slovo and later on the web page of the

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. The article criticized the conditions and ill-treatments in prisons. On 18 February 2009, the administration of Volgograd set a suit against Maglevannaya for “honour and business reputation protection”, accusing her of spreading disinformation on torture of Mr. Zubayraev. Court of Volgograd ruled that Maglevannaya had spread false information, and ordered to pay 200,000 rubles (about 4,600 euros) as a compensation for moral damage to the administration of Volgograd prison colony LIU-15. Also, Maglevannaya has received a

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on the web site of a nationalist group Russian Nationwide Union. Maglevannaya claims that she was threatened to be sent to a mental hospital if she continued to write. In

, Maglevannaya has been supported by members of the " Finnish-Russian Civic Forum" (Finrosforum). In May 2009, Maglevannaya participated in a forum on

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by Finrosforum in

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and requested for a

a few days later. In 2010, she was granted political asylum in Finland.

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External links

World Organisation Against Torture: Sentencing of Ms. Elena Maglevannaya
* Tlisova, Fatima.
The Cost of Truth: Russian Journalist Elena Maglevannaya's Story
" '' Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting''.
Svobodnoye Slovo (in russian)

Diary of Yelena Maglevannaya (in russian)
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