As Achilova was on her way to photograph a ceremony marking Victory Day at the country’s new WWII memorial complex in Ashgabat, she was stopped by several men in plain clothes and three police officers who demanded she delete any photographs, dragged her down the stairs into a car, called her a “slut and traitor of the motherland,” and threatened her with arrest on drug-related charges. They detained her for two hours, demanding that she stop working for RFE/RL.
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