Tajikistan Accused of Intimidating Activists Abroad by Targeting Relatives Back Home
Sharofiddin Gadoev, 35, a Tajik political activist from the Netherlands, was arrested in February 2019 during a visit to Moscow
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Rights violation monitoring
Afghan women journalists rep shot dead in Jalalabad
December 10, 2020 ORGANISATION RSF_en Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Afghan woman journalist Malalai Maiwand’s targeted murder today in the
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Kyrgyzstan: Don’t Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan
Independent Journalist Faces Torture if Returned (Berlin) – Kyrgyz authorities should reject a request to extradite the independent Uzbek journalist Bobomurod Abdullaev
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Tajikistan authorities question family members of exiled journalist
July 16, 2020 10:05 AM EDT On July 3, 2020, the Tajikistan prosecutor general’s office in Dushanbe, the capital, summoned
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Attack on and threats against Avazmad Ghurbatov
On 11 May 2020, two unknown masked men attacked human rights defender and journalist Avazmad Ghurbatov (pen name Abdulloh Ghurbati)
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Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Human rights must be protected during COVID-19 pandemic
29 April 2020, 03:01 UTC Governments in Eastern European and Central Asian countries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with
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2020 World Press Freedom Index: “Entering a decisive decade for journalism, exacerbated by coronavirus”
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), shows that the coming decade will be decisive
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Tajik Reporter Jailed for Quoting Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
By Reuters April 16, 2020 DUSHANBE — A Tajik court on Thursday sentenced a local journalist to a year in
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Coronavirus crisis makes reporting even harder in Tajikistan
April 9, 2020 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for more transparency and an end to harassment of journalists in Tajikistan,
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