The authorities have completed the investigation against the journalist and blogger Abdullo Gurbati, and all the materials of the criminal case against him have been submitted to the court. The court of the Shokhmansur district of the capital confirmed that on August 17 they received the materials of the criminal case against Gurbati, but refrained […]
The trial of civic activist and journalist Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva and her ex-husband, an officer of the State Committee for National Security Kholbash Kholbashev, who are called by the authorities “the organizers of the May rallies in GBAO”, is nearing completion. The state prosecutor demanded a sentence of life imprisonment for Kholbashev, and 25 years for […]
The former head of the Rakatboshi Citizens’ Assembly (Tashkent) threatened to kill the leader of the Open Line group, Tatyana Dovlatova after a criminal case was opened against him. The human rights activist sought this for several years after she convicted Sattor Rakhimov of misappropriation of budgetary funds and illegal use of real estate on […]
Journalist Shokhrukh Saipov, who spoke about problems with taxi drivers at the Osh airport and at the Dostuk border checkpoint, is again threatened. In an interview with ACCA, he spoke about who is trying to intimidate him and how law enforcement agencies react to this — What kind of threats do you receive, in what […]
The Tajik authorities should release journalists Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva and Khushruz Dzhumaev, drop all charges against them and stop the secret persecution of journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American independent non-profit non-governmental organization based in New York, said on Thursday, August 11. The secret persecution in the Committee is understood as the investigation […]
The international organization Reporters Without Borders has published a report for 2022 on the state of media freedom in the world. Turkmenistan improved its position by one point and took 177th place out of 180 possible, and thus entered the top three countries in terms of censorship and suppression of media freedom. In this report, […]
On July 29, Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Foundation, the first president of Kazakhstan, filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Maryland against the American Journalism Development Network (JDN), headquartered in Baltimore. According to the lawsuit, the Nazarbayev Foundation did not like the JDN publication, which revealed that the first president of Kazakhstan owns a multibillion-dollar […]
In Ust-Kamenogorsk, five unknown people attacked Anton Knyazev, a journalist from the Road Control information portal. It should be noted that this is the second attack on the journalists of the portal in the last month. Anton Knyazev was attacked on the night of August 3-4 in one of the shops in the city of […]
The international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders called on the Tajik authorities to immediately release four independent journalists who “criticized the government” and are currently under arrest “on trumped-up charges of links to extremist organizations.” The statement of this authoritative international organization, published on July 27, lists the cases of Daleri Imomali, Abdullo Gurbati, […]
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