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Abdullo Gurbati

Affiliated media: Asia-Plus, Journalist

Incident date: April 26, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-physical and/or cyber-attacks and threats

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The editorial office of "Asia-Plus" received an anonymous call with murder threats and insults to journalist Abdullo Gurbati. At the same time, in a YouTube video unknown people called Abdullo a traitor for covering events related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan. According to them, he works in the interests of dissidents intentionally escalating the situation in the country.

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