Sid Yanyshev

Affiliated media: Independent journalist

Incident date: January 17, 2020

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: JFJ Expert

Location: Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Additional information:

A local police major, accompanied by a precinct, waited for hours for independent journalist Sid Yanyshev outside his house in Tashkent. Without introducing himself, the officer asked the journalist to show his passport and said briefly to him, «Don't forget me!». The journalist showed the document. Otherwise, he could have been detained and imprisoned. Sid Yanyshev seems this threat as psychological pressure on him after his interview with the general secretary of the opposition party 'Erk' Abdunazar Oripov.