media freedom
Detentions and years of imprisonment for reporters and bloggers in Tajikistan have turned journalism into a dangerous profession. Tajikistan’s authorities continue to increase pressure on journalists. (more…)
The Central Asian countries have never ranked high in global rankings of press freedom index. The authorities of the regional states try to toughen control over media and introduce new instruments to tighten the screws.
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The Tajik media community protests against the detention of independent journalists Daler Imomali and Abdullo Gurbati. (more…)
Public and civil society should not allow the authorities to abuse digital technologies and restrict the rights of users to freedom of speech, said in an interview for CABAR.asia Inga Sikorskaya, the Central Asian media expert, director of the research center the School of Peacemaking and Media technologies in Central Asia. (more…)
«The main obstacles and threats to the media are insufficient professional training, self-censorship, insufficient financial resources, poor professional ethics and government interference in the media», – notes Marat Mamadshoev, IWPR’s editor in Tajikistan, in his article for CABAR.asia.
«Country residents should not be lulled into complacency by their so-called leadership in freedom of speech among Central Asian countries. These statements, by the way, have long been covered in dust. The country needs a new quantum leap», – notes media expert Azamat Tynaev, in his article for CABAR.asia. (more…)