Muhammadikboli Sadriddin

Affiliated media: Isloh.net, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: February 4, 2021

Attack type:

Defamation, spreading libel about a media worker or media outlet

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The State publication 'Narodnaya Gazeta' published an offensive article about the Isloh.net editor-in-chief. Currently, the journalist is in Europe, where he has been granted asylum. The article contains offensive sexual expressions. Even though the author stated his name and even his place of work, but it was found out there is no teacher with this name in the Russian-Tajik Slavic University.

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