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"In one telling sign of the climate of fear that prevails in Tajikistan, only two among the more than a dozen journalists, press freedom advocates, and experts that CPJ met with were willing to speak on the record."
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“Every arrest, case of torture, extrajudicial killing and kidnapping sends a signal to journalists, activists, community leaders and lawyers about the cost of challenging the regime.”
In the past year in Tajikistan, eight journalists and bloggers were sentenced to sentences ranging from 7 to 21 years for collaboration with prohibited organisations. Radio Ozodi collected testimonies from their families. One of them managed to get a letter out of solitary confinement, where he complained of being subjected to psychological pressure and torture.
Condemning Tajikistan’s systematic censorship of independent journalism, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of four reporters who recently received sentences ranging from seven to ten years in prison for supposed links with extremist organisations simply because they covered “sensitive” subjects that bothered the authorities.