Article in Committee to Project Journalists by Staff, 1/13/25

Headline:  “Tajik journalist Ahmad Ibrohim sentenced to 10 years in prison”

A court in Tajikistan’s southern city of Kulob on January 10 sentenced Ahmad Ibrohim, chief editor of the independent weekly newspaper Payk, to 10 years in prison on charges of bribery, extortion, and extremism.

The closed-door trial was held in the city’s pretrial detention center, with authorities reportedly classifying the case as secret.

“With Tajik authorities having all but obliterated the independent press over the past decade, the hefty sentence meted out to Ahmad Ibrohim shows the lengths they will go to stamp out critical reporting,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator…”

https://cpj.org/2025/01/tajik-journalist-ahmad-ibrohim-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/