Makhasti Dustmurod

Affiliated media: Radio Ozodi, Journalist

Incident date: February 27, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Radio Ozodi

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

Niso Rasulova and Makhasti Dustmurod were attacked by vendors in the illegal smartphone market. The attackers tried to through them out of their car to confront them after they had been filming. Policemen who were called to the scene by the journalists declined to help them and demanded that they delete all their footage. The journalists escaped the situation after finding an influential acquaintance.