Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the authorities of Tajikistan to release Tajik bloggers Daleri Imomali and Abdullo Gurbati immediately. On the website of this international human rights organization today (on June 22), the material “Tajikistan: free bloggers, respect freedom of the media” was posted. It states that “Imomali and Gurbati are persecuted for their […]
The authorities continue to turn the screws, cleaning up objectionable journalists Over the past month in Tajikistan, Radio Ozodi’s correspondent Mulloradjab Yusufzoda was beaten by unknown persons. Phones and video equipment were confiscated from this radio’s correspondents: Barot Yusufi, Anushervon Aripov, Nasim Isamov. The phone and laptop of Asia-Plus correspondent Ramziya Mirzobekova were seized. Independent […]
By the decision of the Shohmansur District Court of Dushanbe, journalist and blogger Daler Imomali was placed under preliminary arrest for two months, and his case was classified as secret. The court session took place on Saturday, June 18. The journalist was charged under several articles of the country’s Criminal Code, including participation in the […]
Law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan have detained two journalists Daler Imomali and Abdullo Gurbati. On the morning of June 15, Daler Imomali managed to write on Facebook that he was stopped on Dushanbe-Khujand highway by police officers of Ayni district. He was going to Kanibadam to shoot his new film. In the afternoon, Daler was […]
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan opened a criminal case on the fact of attacking journalists of Radio Ozodi and Present Time, theft of their personal and office property under Article 248 part 2 (“Robbery”) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan. The journalists were recognized as victims. Lawyer Abdurahmon Sharipov, whose […]
Media organizations in Tajikistan issued a joint statement in which they stuck up for journalists who had come under pressure from the authorities. In their statement, they criticized the attack on Radio Ozodi’s journalists Mulloradjab Yusufzoda and Barot Yusufi, as well as on Present Time’s journalists Anushervon Aripov and Nasim Isamov. On May 17, 2022, […]
Tajik journalist and blogger Daleri Imomali was detained by law enforcement officers on June 4 and taken to the so-called conversation, during which he received blows to the face and head. According to the blogger, he was kept in one of the police departments for five hours and then released on the condition that he […]
In Rasht district, the court sentenced 66-year-old Mavdzhigul Garibova (the mother of a well-known blogger and government critic Djunaydullo Khudoyorov) to two years of house arrest. The court found her guilty of hooliganism, although the woman herself is sure that she was slandered and intends to challenge the court’s verdict. The criminal case under the […]
In Dushanbe, unidentified men in civilian clothes attacked journalists of the TV channel Present Time and the Tajik service of Radio Liberty (Radio Ozodi). According to Anushervon Aripov, the TV crew of Present Time was returning from an interview with Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, a civil activist and journalist who, the authorities believe, was one of the […]
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