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Anti-Kremlin website founder dies in police 'incident'
A vocal critic of the Kremlin's policies in the Caucasus was fatally shot on Sunday while in police custody.
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 1:27AM BST 01 Sep 2008
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the ingushetiya.ru site, was a prominent opponent of the volatile region of Ingushetia's president, Murat Zyazikov.
Mr Yevloyev was shot in the head after police met him at Ingushetia's airport and put him in a car to take him for questioning, said his deputy, Ruslan Khautiyev.
Police met Mr Yevloyev at the steps of the aircraft after he flew in to Ingushetia's airport, put him in a Volga saloon car and drove him away, said a lawyer for the website, which survived repeated official attempts to close it down.
"As they drove he was shot in the temple... They threw him out of the car near the hospital," lawyer Kaloi Akhilgov told reporters.
"He was discovered there and they quickly put him on the operating table, which is where he died." Mr Akhilgov added.
Mr Akhilgov said Mr Yevloyev, who was in his thirties, flew from Moscow to Nazran on the same flight as the Kremlin-backed local leader Murat Zyazikov.
A spokesman for Zyazikov could not be reached for comment.
A police spokesman said Yevloyev was detained and died in an "incident" while being taken for interrogation.
Mr Yevloyev is the most prominent anti-Kremlin journalist to be killed since Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the lift of her apartment block in October 2006.
Paris-based media-rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said they were "profoundly shocked," at the news of Mr Yevloyev's death.
"It is essential that the international community, and especially the European Union, demands an explanation for what really happened," it said in a statement.
A Moscow-based spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Mr Yevloyev's death, "in such suspicious circumstances, can only raise questions."
Russia is considered to be one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists.
Asides Politkovskya and Yevloyev, high-profile journalists such as Paul Klebnikov, Ivan Safranov and Yuri Shchekochikhin have all died in mysterious circumstances since 2003.
No-one has been prosecuted for any of the deaths.