Daler Sharifov

Affiliated media: Freelance journalist

Incident date: February 5, 2020

Attack type:

• Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Facebook

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

Posts exposing the independent journalist Daler Sharifov and his colleagues who had advocated his release started to appear from fake Facebook accounts. The authors of the posts stated that the journalist's book, which, by the way, has not been published, contains anti-Semitic statements.