Beaten female Russian journalist moved to Moscow hospital

Yelena Milashina, a journalist for the now-banned independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, speaks on the phone at a hospital after she and lawyer Alexander Nemov were attacked on their way to the Chechen capital Grozny from the local airport, in Grozny, Russia July 4, 2023. Crew Against Torture/Handout via REUTERS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian investigative journalist and a lawyer who were beaten in the southern republic of Chechnya have been moved to a hospital in Moscow, one of the country's most prominent journalists said on Wednesday.

Yelena Milashina, a well-known journalist for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, was travelling to the Chechen capital Grozny from the local airport with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, when they were attacked a day earlier.