Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading “mud and slander” about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.The ban on the popular social networking site is the latest crackdown on dissent in Tajikistan a year before an election that could extend Rakhmon’s two-decade rule.
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Tajikistan blocks Facebook access to silence critics
Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading “mud and slander” about veteran President Imomali Rakhmon and officials in the Central Asian republic.