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 […]
The Pervomaiskiy District Court of Bishkek has completed the proceedings on charges of former President Almazbek Atambayev of illegally issuing passports to Turkish citizens and abuse of office during the construction of a school in Kalys-Ordo residential area. Almazbek Atambayev was taken to the court from the colony by ambulance. Part of the meeting, where […]
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 […]
On June 9, political scientist Marat Kazakpaev’s health deteriorated sharply; an ambulance was called for him. Doctors took him to the Clinical Hospital No.1 in Bishkek Since April 14, 2021, Marat Kazakpaev has been held in the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee for National Security under Article 307 of part 1 “Treason” of […]
The Pervomaiskiy Court of Bishkek dismissed the complaint of Bolot Temirov and his lawyers to invalidate the decision of the prosecutor to refuse to initiate a criminal case against police officers who allowed the disclosure of investigation materials, illegally tapped his telephone conversations and distributed these materials. The complaint prepared by Temirov’s lawyers alleges that […]
Well-known human rights activist Izzat Amon, who was sentenced last October to 9 years in prison, was given another 6 years on a new charge of major fraud. The verdict was announced on June 6 in the court of Sino district of the capital in the presence of the convict’s relatives and his lawyer. Izzat […]
The other day, investigative journalist Bolot Temirov from Temirov Live project reported that a suspicious package was thrown at the house of his colleague Aktilek Kaparov. According to Temirov, Kaparov’s father saw an unknown man doing something near his son’s fence. “A stranger was asked what he was doing there. In response, he showed the […]
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 […]
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