Isfandiyor Odina

Affiliated media: Independent journalist

Incident date: June 24, 2020

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Media Maker

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The newspaper USSR accused Isfandiyor Odina in connection with the Party of Islamic Renewal, banned in Tajikistan. The author of the article, the journalist Abdukodiri Abdukakhakhor called Bakhtier and other journalists traitors of the motherland, extremists which undermine the authority of Tajikistan on the international stage and sympathizes with terrorists.