Tajikistan

7.1 million people
870 USD GNI (PPP)
Press:
Not Free
Not Free

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Freedom Alert

Facebook, Websites Blocked in Tajikistan After Publishing Article Critical of the President

Mar 5 2012 - 5:42pm

Freedom House condemns Tajikistan’s state-run communications agency for ordering internet service providers to block access to Facebook and at least three Russian-language websites, including – tjknews.com, maxala.org and zvezda.ru –  after the sites published an article critical of President Emonali Rakhmon entitled “Tajikistan on the eve of a revolution.”

Issues: 
Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom, Media Freedom
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia
Freedom Alert

Tajikh Reporter Khurshed Atovullo Attacked

Aug 30 2011 - 7:00pm

The editor of independent Tajikh newspaper Farazh, Khurshed Atovullo, was attacked along with his brother and brother-in-law in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on August 31. According to media sources, Atovullo was on his way to an Eid al-Fitr celebration when three men wielding clubs beat him. The motive behind the attack is unclear, although Atovullo saw his assailants’ license plate and reported the attack to the police. This was not the first time Atovullo’s work likely was the cause of endangerment, as he was nearly killed in a 1995 attack. His newspaper Farazh has faced obstacles in the last year, banned from using printing facilities and then shut down for three weeks in 2010 after coverage of military activity.

Issues: 
Human Rights Defense, Media Freedom
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia

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Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On

“Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,” marks the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. The retrospective essay examines the changes in the political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well as includes graphs and rankings that illustrate the region's performance in the annual Freedom House publications Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press. The report  concludes that there is a serious and disturbing failure to embrace democratic institutions in most of the post-Soviet region.

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Only a decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, freedom of the press for millions of people across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has come nearly full circle. The media landscape across most of today’s CIS in some aspects differs from that of the Soviet era, but in important ways is imposing a no less repressive news media environment. Gone is all encompassing ideological state media control. Russia – and most of the countries on its periphery – today features modern methods of information control that effectively shuts off the majority of people in these lands from news and information of political consequence.

Issues: 
Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia

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