Shokhrukh Khaydarov
Affiliated media: Gazeta.uz, Photo correspondent
Incident date: December 9, 2022
Attack type:
- Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Acca.media
Location: Uzbekistan, Karshi
Additional information:
On December 9, there was an attempt on the part of an investigative officer to conduct a «preventive talk» about a social network post with Shokhrukh Khaydarov, the photo correspondent of Gazeta.uz. In the morning, he received a phone call from someone at his parents’ house in Karshi. The journalist believes that the visit of a law enforcement officer stressed his elderly parents. The spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Shokhrukh Giyasov explained that the management of the ministry’s regional branches «personally initiated» conversations with journalists’ relatives in order to «ask social activists to objectively cover different social events and temporary difficulties».