The former security officer, who criticized the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security, was sent to jail for a period of 7 years. Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov worked in the National Security agencies for 25 years. Prior to that, he worked in the youth newspaper “Komsomol Tochikiston” [“Member of the Komsomol of Tajikistan]. After his […]
Komyor Mirzoev, a blogger and civil activist from Gorno-Badakhshan, was detained in Moscow and illegally transported from Russia to Dushanbe. Earlier, one of the sources in the law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan, on anonymous terms, said that Mirzoev actively posted false information about the events in GBAO under an assumed name, and also called on […]
On September 6, another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan, Komyor Mirzoev, was detained in Moscow. According to the Internet portal Pamir Daily News, Mirzoev was active in his blog and wrote on social networks under the nickname Komchek Mirzoev. According to eyewitnesses, police officers entered the apartment in Moscow where the blogger lived with his friends and […]
On September 7, the Saryagash District Court will begin considering another lawsuit against the well-known opposition journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov on libel charges and damage to the honor and dignity of business reputation. An application to the court against the journalist was filed by the longtime heroine of his publications, who had already met with him […]
Another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan was detained in Moscow. Maksud Gayosov, a civil activist and blogger from Badakhshan, who flew to Russia after the authorities began detaining civil activists in the Pamirs, has been living in a rented apartment in Moscow for six months now. On August 17, the police came to him and took him […]
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 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 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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