Shavkat Hassan - Justice for Journalists

Shavkat Hassan

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: April 3, 2020

Attack type:

  • Pressure on a media worker via non-physical pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: YouTube channel Kun.uz

Location: Uzbekistan, Chirchik

Additional information:

The blogger’s father received a call from people who believed to be security forces and was threatened that Shavkat Hassan will be arrested if he continues writing about the health department's inaction in Chirchik and criminal negligence in the line of duty during the quarantine. An unknown people in the conversation called Shavkat a traitor. After the call, his father suffered a heart attack. The father asked his son not to write on the Internet anymore, or he would disown him.

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