On 3 May, the Khatlon province administration convened a meeting in the city of Kurgan-Tube to discuss the issues of celebrating the forthcoming National Unity Day

The administration invited journalists to attend the meeting of the steering committee. However, right after the beginning of the meeting, deputy prime minister of the country, Ms. Rukiya Kurbanova asked the journalists to leave the premises.

The journalists themselves interpreted the behavior of the high-ranked official as “a certain gift for the International Free Press Day”.

NANSMIT, Monitoring Service