- Date
- 22/03/2000
- First
- Luisa
- Surname
- ARZHIEVA
- Sex/Age
- F, 26
- Incident
- crossfire
- Motive
- J
- Place
- village
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- Chechnya
- Street, Town, Region
- Avtury, Chechnya
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- Moscow, Istina mira
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- murder, stabbed
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No Information
Luiza Arzhieva, 26-year-old correspondent for the "Istina Mira" newspaper, was killed in the Chechen village of Avtury on 22 March 2000. The CJES has received documents, including a death certificate issued on 22 March 2000, which describe the cause of death: “numerous fragmentation wounds to the chest and head“.
Luiza Arzhieva joined the Russian Union of Journalists in 1998. She received a membership card that identified as her as member of the IFJ (No BA-4284) and arts correspondent with the small, Moscow-based Istina Mira weekly.