On 14 May, during the Fifth Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), at Strategic Research Center in Dushanbe, eight journalists representing local and foreign media were asked to leave the place.

Vafo Niyatbekov, representative of the Strategic Research Center, explained that the journalists can meet participants of the Forum at the end of the session and collect copies of presentations, but they are not allowed to stay in the conference room during the day.

The journalists had to obey in order not to compromise Tajikistan’s image before the foreign participants.

It should be noted that the journalists were attending the second session of the Forum, where participants discussed the issues of cultural and international cooperation, and the information presented there had nothing to do with security data.

NANSMIT monitoring service