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Bipartisan Group Of U.S. Lawmakers Urge Rahmon To End Pressure On RFE/RL’s Tajik Service

A group of U.S. lawmakers has sent a letter to the Tajik President urging him to help end pressure and threats to RFE/RL’s Tajik Service journalists.

Threats To RFE/RL Journalists Multiply As World Marks Press Freedom Day

Media freedom is under severe pressure throughout RFE/RL’s 23-country coverage region.

Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Russia: Official Pressure Rising Against RFE/RL

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have come under severe pressure in recent weeks, as local authorities clamp down on the right of RFE/RL reporters to work legally and safely.

Remembering RFE/RL’s Fallen Journalists

RFE/RL journalists, often at great personal risk, work to spread knowledge and combat lies to ensure that people even in the world’s most oppressed nations have access to the truth. 

Briefly…RFE/RL’s Tajik Service On Media Freedom

Acting Managing Editor of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Sirojiddin Tolibov, explains how the Service reports on one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.

RFE/RL Criticizes Tajikistan’s Attempts To Interfere With Coronavirus Reporting

As journalists with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Tajik Service race to cover the coronavirus pandemic, filling an information void left by an inert official press, the government is obstructing…

Tajikistan Again Fails To Fully Accredit RFE/RL Journalists

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly has told Tajikistan’s top diplomat that his government has failed to honor its commitments, and that RFE/RL may have to consider alternatives to its current operations…

RFE/RL Names New Central Asia Director

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has named Hamid Ismailov as the company’s new Regional Director for Central Asia, effective February 1.

In Meeting with Tajik President, RFE/RL Presses For Media Freedom And Accreditation

Only days after authorities in Tajikistan responded piecemeal to the accreditation requests of nearly 20 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists and staff, RFE/RL President Jamie Fly met with Tajik…

Tajik Authorities Continue to Pressure RFE/RL Dushanbe Bureau

In a letter to Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jamie Fly criticized the ministry’s decision to withhold accreditation from some members of its Tajik Service.