Effort to Intimidate Human Rights Watch in Uzbekistan

Expand Video blogger Sardor Kamilov (left) accosts Human Rights Watch researcher Steve Swerdlow at a hotel in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 13, 2019. © 2019 Private (Berlin) – A Human Rights Watch researcher, Steve Swerdlow, was the target of an aggressive verbal attack while on a visit to Uzbekistan to investigate human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization condemned the attack in Tashkent on June 13, 2019, which appears to be part of a wider smear campaign against Human Rights Watch, other human rights activists, and journalists in Uzbekistan. On the morning of June…

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