On June 16th, at 00.20, Celia Davies and Amanda Erickson was attacked outside Davies’s apartment. Four young men of athletic appearance threw the women on the ground and started beating and kicking them without explanation. They had been following the women for about twenty minutes. As a result, the girls were seriously injured. They broke Davies’s arm.
Erickson and Davies worked with local NGOs (IRFS), providing training for journalists and civil society activists. Erickson also worked with the Washington Post and The New York Times.