Galima Bukharbaeva

Quick Facts

Full Name	Galima Bukharbaeva
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 7, 1974(1974-07-07)
Age	50
Birthplace	Tashkent
Country	Uzbekistan
Horoscope	Cancer

Galima Bukharbaeva Biography

Galima Bukharbaeva is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 7, 1974 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Around 1800 security forces gathered to launch an attack and soldiers opened fire at protesters, using armored personnel vehicles. Bukharbaeva later wrote about the incident in a report in the Committee to Protect Journalists:

In May 2005 The city of Andijan was the scene of several weeks of protests against the controversial trial of 23 businessmen who were accused of Islamic extremism. After weeks of peaceful protests that were peaceful, a group of mask-wearing gunmen took over the jail where the defendants were held in the evening of May 12 and released the men as well as protesters who were detained the previous day. On the 13th of May hundreds of thousands of protesters blocked the roads, gaining control of the city’s central area. A tiny portion of them were Armed. Bukharbaeva was reporting in real-time at Bobur Square for CNN, BBC News, and other international news agencies.

Bukharbaeva then spent some time in Kyrgyzstan, first in a refugee camp and later in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, where she was received as a hero by the opposition community. However, she soon moved on to the US for fear that Uzbek security forces might attempt to kidnap her and return her to Uzbekistan for a show trial. She then received a Fulbright Award to pursue a Master’s in journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. While in the US, she also testified before the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress about her experiences on the day of the massacre. In 2008, three years after Andijan, she wrote an editorial in the New York Times accusing Western nations of having already forgotten the massacre by beginning to normalize relations with Uzbekistan.

Bukharbaeva worked as the editor-in-chief for the Uzbek news website uznews.net. The website was blocked within Uzbekistan by state authorities for several years. In 2014, Bukharbaeva’s personal email account was hacked and names of her contributors from Uzbekistan were revealed. That forced her to close the website down. In 2016, she started a new regional news service Centre1.com.

The year 2005 was the time that Bukharbaeva received in 2005 the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The award’s award citation highlighted the risks she was exposed to in her work and said that she earned “a reputation as one of Central Asia’s most outspoken journalists”. The year 2011 was the first time Newsweek acknowledged her as “one of ten female journalists that risked their lives” to pursue the truth, and stated the fact that “her reporting on Uzbekistan’s authoritarianism led to her being denounced as a traitor”.

Galima Bukharbaeva Net Worth

Galima Bukharbaeva is one of the richest Journalist from Uzbekistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Galima Bukharbaeva 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Galima Bukharbaeva (born 7 July 1974 in Tashkent) is a Uzbek journalist, well- known for her work on state authority and for her eyewitness report about the massacre in 2005. Andijan massacre in 2005.

Her articles on these subjects were not well-liked by authorities in the Uzbek government, who then tried to restrict her right to publish. After 2002, her Uzbek government did not renew her accreditation through the IWPR In 2003 the AFP certification renewal was denied. She continued working at the IWPR however, and was appointed its director of the country for Uzbekistan. According to Bukharbaeva the office of the organization was under the watch of an unmarked government vehicle for the entirety of 2004 and.

In 2007, Bukharbaeva served as a founder and chairwoman of the Real Union of Journalists of Uzbekistan.

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Galima Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Uzbekistan. Galima Bukharbaeva celebrates birthday on July 7 of every year.