Shuhrat Babadjanov

Affiliated media: Radio Ozodlik, Journalist

Incident date: April 18, 2017

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Centre-1

Location: Uzbekistan, Khorezm region

Additional information:

In Urgench on April 18th, a group of pseudo-activists caused a scandal at the home of Shukurjan Madrakhimova, the mother of the famous Uzbek Babajanov journalists. Yesterday, three women and one man broke into the home of the elderly woman in Urgench (the centre of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan). They called the 75-year-old pensioner's sons "traitors to the motherland" and shouted that they were a "disgrace Uzbekistan". As soon as the frightened woman tried to call for help, her phone was taken away and broken.