On 28 January, after a long proceeding that lasted for many months, the Firdavsi court in Dushanbe chaired by judge Akbar Safarov affirmed a decision on the case of journalists Mukhayo Nozimova and Farangis Nabieva, correspondents of the newspaper Ovoza.

The claimant, a pop singer Raikhona Rakhimova and the defendants, Saida Kurbanova, Mukhayo Nozimova and Farangis Nabieva asked the judge about reconciliation of the conflict. The court considered the appeal of the parties, and decided to satisfy their request. The case is settled.

Journalists of Ovoza had been accused of violating three articles of the Tajik Criminal Code: Article 135, part 2 (libel in public statements); Article 136, part 2 (insult in public statements); and Article 144 (illegal collection and dissemination of information about private life) allegedly contained in an article published by Ovoza (#25, 21 June 2007).

NANSMIT Monitoring Service