Tajik journalist who could die in prison must be included in amnesty, RSF says

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Tajik authorities to add Khikmatullo Sayfullozoda, a journalist imprisoned since 2015 in conditions that are endangering his life, to the list of thousands of prisoners due to be freed under an amnesty issued by President Emomali Rahmon to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan’s independence. The editor of the opposition weekly Najot and a member of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), Khikmatullo  Sayfullozoda was sentenced to 16 years in prison in

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