Dilbar Alimova

Affiliated media: PolitKlinika, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: May 6, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Dilbar Alimova's Facebook page

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

Additional information:

The journalist said on her Facebook page that she received a phone call from a man who introduced himself as an officer of the State Committee for National Security named Bekzhan. «He asked me to come, saying he wanted to ask me some questions. I told him to invite me officially (to the interrogation), otherwise I will not go. I am now in the mountains and will return to the city only on May 10», — Dilbar Alimova wrote. The caller said that if she does not show up, the officers themselves will take her. Alimova said that it was prompted by the article about a letter the parliament speaker allegedly wrote «asking for the rehabilitation of fugitive President Kurmanbek Bakiyev». After the article was published, the parliament speaker’s press service said the letter was a fake.