Press Release

The Working Group created by Tajikistan’s media organizations summarized its activities on the reformation of the Law “On Printing and Other Mass Media”.

Preliminary assessment of the Law and administrative practice have proven again that the Law “On Printing and Other Mass Media” needs changes and amendments. A team of experts comprising journalists and lawyers have analyzed the text of the Law and proposed more than 80 amendments to various articles. The Working Group assessed the proposals and came to unanimous agreements on 8 amendments. The experts are commissioned to develop a well-grounded coherent proposal.

“The revision of the Law is finished, — said Nuriddin Karshibayev, Chairman of NANSMIT and Coordinator of the Working Group. – At the second stage, we intend to involve independent legal experts, representatives of government structures and the parliament, so that they would study the proposed amendments. We call up our colleagues to take part in the process of lawmaking”.

The Working Group is established within the framework of the initiative on the reformation of the existing Law “On Printing and Other Mass Media”. Among the media organizations involved in this process are NANSMIT, The Union of Journalists of Tajikistan, the Tajik Memorial Fund of Protection of Media Rights, the Media Alliance of Tajikistan, the Public Unit “Homa”, and the Tajik National Press Center.

NANSMIT Monitoring Service