We’ve covered the case of the persecuted Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov in many articles on this blog, and it’s good to see his name featured in a New York Times editorial today.

Mr. Levy described how Mikhail Beketov dared to write about how local officials in the Moscow suburb of Khimki had demolished a Soviet war monument to widen a road and the local government’s plans to plow a major highway through a forest. Mr. Beketov was savagely beaten and left bleeding in the snow outside his house.

His attack left him brain damaged and confined to a wheelchair. Eighteen months later, the authorities have barely begun to investigate.