Mijgona Khalimova

Affiliated media: IWPR, CabarAsia, AsiaPlus, Ozodagon, Imruz, Journalist, Freelancer

Incident date: May 11, 2017

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Asia-plus

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The Somoni regional court in the city of Dushanbe found Mijgona Khalimova guilty under article 347 (failure to report a crime or concealing it) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan and sentenced her to a fine of $2,800. The journalist supposedly received information from a migrant who was then living in Russia. Later this source joined ISIS, and the journalist was accused of failure to report this information.