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Extradition request for dissident journalist is "illegal and absurd"

Published on 12 April 2011Read

Growing repression

Authorities urged to abandon campaign of harassment of independent media

Published on 25 February 2011Read

Tajik weekly faces huge fine

Published on 2 February 2011 Read

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Provincial reporter held for past five weeks for covering corruption

Published on 28 December 2010 Read

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After using civil war spectre to gag media, government urged to dialogue

Published on 15 October 2010 Read

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Officials bring libel actions against print media in run-up to parliamentary elections

Published on 1 February 2010 Read

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Violating Constitution, decree charges media for access to public information

Published on 16 December 2009 Read

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Candidates had unequal access to media in yesterday’s presidential election

Published on 7 November 2006 Read

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Information websites unblocked

Published on 12 October 2006 Read

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Government refuses to give broadcasting licence to BBC

Published on 8 August 2006 Read

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Tajik authorities suspend BBC’s FM broadcasts

Published on 25 January 2006 Read

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Djumaboi Tolibov freed after seven months in custody

Published on 21 December 2005 Read

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Editor sentenced to hand over 20% of his income to the state for two years

Published on 31 August 2005 Read

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Two-year prison sentence for journalist who criticised provincial prosecutor

Published on 1 August 2005 Read

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Sole independent TV station closed

Published on 20 May 2005 Read

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Growing threats to independent press in approach to legislative elections

Published on 1 February 2005 Read

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Independent press subjected to printing obstructions, threats and assault

Published on 24 August 2004 Read

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News website censored

Published on 29 May 2003 Read

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Three journalists drafted into army by force; editor gets death threat

Published on 7 November 2002 Read

Europe & ex-USSR - 8 June 2011

Link to victim’s work ignored in trial of Kyrgyz journalist’s accused murderers

Tajikistan - 8 June 2011

French judge dismisses French journalist’s complaint against Israeli military

Tajikistan - 1 June 2011

Suspected Politkovskaya hit-man arrested in Chechnya

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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