Gazeta.uz - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Gazeta.uz, Online publication

Incident date: November 20, 2020

Attack type:

Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Additional information:

Asajon Khojayev, general manager of the Information and Mass Communication Agency under the Administration of President , in a letter threatened online publication Gazeta.uz with serious legal consequences. The reason was an article where statistics on patients in special hospitals was compared with the Ministry of Health data on COVID-19.

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