An eighty-two year old Russian human rights...
Lyudmila Alexeyeva of the Moscow Helsinki Group was laying flowers at the Park Kultury metro station on Wednesday evening in memory of the victims of Monday"s bombings, when a man hit her in the face.
"He did not break anything. It felt like my blood pressure had risen, but it"s fine," Alexeyeva told RIA Novosti late on Wednesday.
The man, who was immediately detained by police, is due to appear in court on assault charges.
Another human rights activist, Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the For Human Rights group, was badly beaten outside his house on Tuesday night.
At least 39 people died and dozens more were injured when suicide bombers struck two metro stations about 40 minutes apart during the morning rush hour.
More than 3,000 people also paid their respects to the metro bombing dead in Moscow"s Lubyanka Square, within walking distance of the eponymous metro station where the first bomb attack took place.