Jurabek Kizimov - Justice for Journalists

Jurabek Kizimov

Affiliated media: Video blog 'Adolat TV', Blogger

Incident date: March 4, 2020

Attack type:

  • Search without a court decree

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: ACCA

Location: Uzbekistan, Andijan

Additional information:

On March 5, Umid Bobomatov, a journalist from the Uzbek service of Radio Liberty, posted on social media that a search had been conducted in Kizimov's house. “It is not clear what they are looking for, but the children and wife are scared to death,” the journalist noted. - Most likely, they want to shut up Kizimov. As I understand, the Andijan authorities will go till the end now - they have nowhere to retreat, the case has been started, a lot has been said."

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