Ibrat Safo

Affiliated media: BBC Uzbek Service, Journalist

Incident date: February 28, 2024

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Ozodlik

Location: Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Additional information:

The journalist of the BBC Uzbek Service Ibrat Safo said that he was invited «for a conversation» at the Chilanzar District Police Department of Tashkent. He wrote on Facebook: «Before ’finding’ me, the IAB officer twice disturbed my 68-year-old retired sister, who works as a teacher, and told her to come to the Chilanzar District Police Department. I told my sister not to go. I called from London». According to the journalist, this happens to him for the first time in 20 years of working as a BBC journalist in London. «The most interesting thing is that I have not been living in Chilanzar since 2017, my place of registration is the Uzbek Embassy in London», — he noted.