MOSCOW. July 6 (Interfax) - The Russia Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on charges of willful bodily harm of medium severity and willful light bodily harm into an attack on journalist Yelena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Chechnya, the committee said in a statement on Telegram on Wednesday.
Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin was informed of the case by the head of the committee's department in Chechnya, it said.
"An investigative team is conducting investigative and operative procedures to identify the perpetrators of the crime and its circumstances," the statement said.
Unknown assailants beat up Nemov and Milashina, who came to Chechnya for a hearing of the Akhmat District Court in Grozny, which sentenced Zarema Musayeva, the wife of former Chechen judge Saidi Yangulbayev, on July 4.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova appealed to the Russian Investigative Committee's department in Chechnya and the Chechen prosecution service over with the incident. The injured were given medical assistance first in Beslan and then in Moscow.
Bastrykin tasked the regional department heads with looking into incident details.