New York, March 8, 2021 – Tajikistan authorities should conduct a thorough investigation into the attack on journalists Shahlo Abdulloeva and Mullorajab Yusufzoda, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

On March 4, an unidentified security guard at a gas station in Dushanbe, the capital, assaulted Abdulloeva (known as Adbullo), a camera operator, and Yusufzoda (known as Yusufi), a reporter, both of whom work for the U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tajik-language service, known locally as Radio Ozodi, according to news reports and Yusufzoda, who spoke with CPJ in a phone interview. Читать далее Tajikistan RFE/RL correspondents assaulted while covering rising gas prices →