Hundreds protest Russian journalist's beating

MOSCOW (AP) - A few hundred people have demonstrated in the Russian capital to protest an attack on a crusading journalist.

Rights activists and opposition politicians joined colleagues and friends of Mikhail Beketov at Sunday's protest in Moscow.

Beketov is in a coma. He was found badly beaten near his home in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, where he edits a local newspaper. He has criticized local officials and investigated allegations of corrupt and illegal destruction of forests in the area.

A similar protest was held in Khimki on Saturday.

Demonstrators said Beketov's beating shows how far authorities in Russia will go to silence critics. Attacks on journalists who investigate alleged wrongdoing by the authorities are common.
MyWay

Hey what happened to pushing out of ten storie windows, or the old trusty one shot in the head?