Bobojon Kayumov - Justice for Journalists

Bobojon Kayumov

Affiliated media: Nahzat, Journalist

Incident date: September 18, 2017

Attack type:

  • Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Tajikistan, Kulob

Additional information:

Students of the Kulyab State University came to the house of Bobojon Kayumov's parents and started calling him a terrorist and a traitor. They threatened his father. Until June 2018, the father was summoned for questioning every month to the office of the State Committee of National Security and demanded that he return his son.

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