Tajikistan Keeps Putting Pressure on Independent Media Reporters Without Border

AKIPRESS.COM - The Government of Tajikistan removed the political opposition and keeps putting pressure on independent media on the plea of fighting against terrorism, the Reporters Without Border reports in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index.

"President Emomali Rakhmon's authoritarian tendencies threaten the fragile national consensus constructed over the ashes of the civil war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1997. On the pretext of combatting terrorism, the government has eliminated the political opposition and is building pressure on the remaining independent media. Interrogation by intelligence officers, intimidation, and blackmail have become part of the daily fare of independent journalists.

Surveillance of communications is now...