The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan announced at a press conference on July 19 that journalist Abdullo Gurbati is suspected of collaborating with the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT). Abdullo Gurbati was detained on June 15 on suspicion of using violence against a government official. On June 18, by the decision of […]
Journalist and blogger Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzoda is accused of publicly calling for extremist activities, Shodi Hafizzoda, head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, said at a press conference on July 19. He faces a prison sentence of 3 to 5 years. Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzoda previously worked at the […]
On July 15, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan announced at a press conference why journalists and bloggers Zavkibek Saidamini and Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzoda were detained. The representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office Sharif Kurbonzoda said that Zavkibek Saidamini was detained on suspicion of collaborating with the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and the Group 24 […]
Exactly a week has passed since the detention of journalists and bloggers Zavkibek Saidamini and Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda, but the authorities do not report their whereabouts or voiced the charges against them. On July 14, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) also expressed concern about the fate of the bloggers, calling on Dushanbe to announce the […]
Authorities continue to crack down on civil society activists in Badakhshan. The court of the city of Khorog sentenced Muyassar Sadonshoev to 11 years in prison, he was found guilty of treason. “The whole fault of Muyassar was that he filmed the meetings of the “Commission 44” and posted them on the Internet. So they […]
While the Kazakh authorities from the high stands of the capital are announcing a course towards “New Kazakhstan”, in the regions of the country they continue to intimidate and eliminate objectionable journalists using the old proven methods. ACCA has already reported on threats against well-known journalist Mikhail Kozachkov, who specializes in investigating corruption scandals, after […]
Interesting decisions were made by the Kazakh Themis regarding blogger Elmar Khusainov, who insulted and slandered another blogger, Alzhan Ismagulov. According to the victim most likely this happened because Khusainov is a friend of the state secretary of the republic Yerlan Karin. This story began in February 2021. Ismagulov then participated in the trial of […]
On June 28, the court session on the October events of 2020 ended in the Pervomaiskiy District Court of Bishkek. All the suspects, as well as the former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, were acquitted due to the absence of corpus delicti in their actions. Together with him, in the case of the October events, […]
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 […]
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