Front Line is deeply concerned following the arrest of two human rights defenders and 10 journalists in Nazran, Ingushetia, on 26 January 2008. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya and Timur Akiyev, both staff members of Memorial Human Rights Centre, were detained while attending a demonstration to protest against repression and corruption in Ingushetia. Said-Khussein Tsarnaev, a photo-journalist for RIA-Novosti; Mustafa Kurskiev, a correspondent for Moscow-based printing houses; Roman Plyusov and Vladimir Varfolomeev, journalists with Echo Moscow radio station; Danila Galperovich of Radio Liberty; Olga Bobrova of Novaya Gazeta; two correspondents of St. Petersburg Channel Five TV; two correspondents of Russian State TV were also detained. 
