Tajikistan - Massive Internet censorship could add Tajikistan to “countries under surveillance”

Reporters without borders

Access to the leading independent news website Asia-Plus has been blocked for the third time in two months. It was last blocked on 23 July (see below) and had only just been restored when it was blocked again yesterday. Tajikistan's Internet Service Providers are doing the blocking at the behest of the Communications Agency, which cites “technical reasons.” The Russian news agency RIA-Novosti's website has also been blocked, joining YouTube, two other Russian news sites (Lenta.ru and (...)

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