On 9 March 2016 in Ingushetia unknown assailants assaulted a group of journalists and staff from the Joint Mobile Group, a human rights organization set up in 2009 following the murder of the Chechen human rights defender, Natalia Estemirova, as they were travelling to neighbouring Chechnya. Igor Kalyapin, who chairs the NGO and is a member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council, reported the attack on the council's website (in Russian). Human Rights Watch described the incident as follows: 'Masked men, armed with baseball bats, brutally attacked a group of foreign and Russian journalists and Russian activists documenting human rights abuses on March 9, 2016, in the North Caucasus. A few hours later, masked men raided the office of a nongovernmental organization in the region. At least 15 men stopped a bus carrying eight people and their driver as the group traveled from Ingushetia to Chechnya and beat them. The group included six journalists – one Norwegian, one Swedish, and four Russian – and two Russian human rights activists. All were injured, and five were hospitalized. The attackers set the bus on fire.'