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Place of Birth: Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia
About Yelena Maglevannaya
- Yelena Maglevannaya (Russian: ????? ???????????, born 15 December 1981) is a Russian free-lance journalist for the newspaper Svobodnoye Slovo, Free Speech, in Volgograd.
- She has requested a political asylum in Finland on May 2009.
- Maglevannaya has focused on cases of persecution against Chechens.Maglevannaya published an article of a Chechen Zubayr Zubayraev (Russian: ?????? ?????????), detained in Volgograd since 2007, in Civitas.ru, Svobodnoye Slovo and later on the web page of the Islamic Committee of Russia.
- The article criticized the conditions and ill-treatments in prisons.
- On February 18, 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 death threat 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 Finland Maglevannaya has been supported by members of the "Finnish-Russian Civic Forum" (Finrosforum).
- In May 2009 Maglevannaya participated in a forum on human rights by Finrosforum in Helsinki and requested for a political asylum a few days later.
- In 2010 she was granted political asylum in Finland.
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