Samara Parapieva - Justice for Journalists

Samara Parapieva

Affiliated media: TV channel TMG, Correspondent

Incident date: February 15, 2020

Attack type:

  • Pressure on a source, including threats of violence and death

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Kyrgyzstan, Osh

Additional information:

A journalist told human rights activists, that she and members of her family are being threatened over the phone. This was after she criticised the condition of a local nursery, that was shown in the programme “Civilian control”. She explained to the activists, that her husband was called by someone who introduced themselves as the son of the manager of the nursery, saying “Me and your wife can start speaking completely differently, I just wanted to warn you”.

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