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Prosecutor requests 14 years for reporter who criticized local officials

Published on 30 September 2011Read

Biased justice?

President asked to intercede in detained journalist’s case

Published on 7 September 2011Read

BBC correspondent tells court he was tortured while detained

Reporters Without Borders reiterates it call to the judicial authorities to drop all charges against BBC correspondent Urinboy Usmonov, whose (...)

Published on 23 August 2011 Read

BBC World Service reporter held in northwestern city

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned to learn that Urinboy Usmonov, a reporter for the BBC World Service’s Uzbek-language service, is being (...)

Published on 17 June 2011 Read

Extradition request for dissident journalist is "illegal and absurd"

Reporters Without Borders today denounced as “illegal and absurd” the efforts of the Tajik government to get dissident journalist Dodojon (...)

Published on 12 April 2011 Read

Authorities urged to abandon campaign of harassment of independent media

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the worsening situation of the Tajik media, which has been detailed by the National (...)

Published on 25 February 2011 Read

Tajik weekly faces huge fine

Reporters Without Borders has joined the Union of Journalists in Tajikistan (TUJ) and the National Association of Independent Media in Tajikistan (...)

Published on 2 February 2011 Read

Provincial reporter held for past five weeks for covering corruption

Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a newspaper reporter who has been detained arbitrarily by prosecutors (...)

Published on 28 December 2010 Read

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

Reporters Without Borders deplores the offensive that the Tajik authorities have launched against media critical of the government, in which (...)

Published on 15 October 2010 Read

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

"The Tajik authorities must stop using the judicial system to harass independent news media", Reporters Without Borders said today in reaction to (...)

Published on 1 February 2010 Read

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Tajikistan - 6 October 2011

Call for more effort, more vigilance five years after Politkovskaya murder

Tajikistan - 6 October 2011

Another day of violence against journalists covering protests

Tajikistan - 5 October 2011

Five-year sentence for RFE/RL correspondent

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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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