Tajikistan launches crackdown on Internet critics
Posted in: Censorship at 14/07/2012 16:40
Tajikistan plans to create a volunteer-run body to monitor Internet use and reprimand those who openly criticise President Imomali Rakhmon and his government, the head of the Central Asian country's state-run communications service said on Friday.
Beg Zukhurov said the organisation, while awaiting official registration, had already brought several Internet users to task for publishing "insults" against "well-known personalities" in the former Soviet republic.
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