Dastan Umotbai uulu

Affiliated media: Radio Azattyk (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service) , Journalist

Incident date: October 6, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Radio Azattyk

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Osh

Additional information:

The regional correspondent of Radio Azattyk was attacked when he was covering the protest rally in Osh. Dastan Umotbai uulu arrived at the place where the rally of the representatives of the political party Birimdik took place. This is one of the parties that, according to the official data won the parliamentary elections. Unknown people attacked a journalist while he was covering the event. He managed to escape.