Tajikistan - 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 in Khujand, in the northern province of Sughd, since 23 November. Ismoilov was arrested at the behest of the regional prosecutor's office one day after an article he wrote about its alleged corrupt and irregular practices was published in the newspaper Istikol. His detention is clearly designed to stop him working as regional correspondent. He has (...)

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