Maxina Davlatova

Affiliated media: Independent journalist

Incident date: June 17, 2020

Attack type:

• Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Facebook page Anti Ifort

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The film Khienat (Betrayal) was shown on the central state television channels of Tajikistan in three parts. At the start of the film, it says it was made by the company Tfilm and the television channel Tochikiston, but the power ministries that provided information for the film are not mentioned. The third part of the film was dedicated to the activity a Akhbor.com, a web site that was banned in Tajikistan which is run by journalist Mirzo Salimpur from Prague. Akhbor was banned in Tajikistan in February of this year in connection with the declaration of the Party of Islamic Renewal as terrorist. All the personal data of several journalists, their date of birth and addresses, are indicated in the film, although it is claimed that more than 20 journalists from Tajikistan cooperated in the film. Also mentioned is how much each one of them received for materials published on Akhbor. Davlatova was said to receive US $1,220 from Salimpur for 7 journalistic materials.