Olga Tutubalina

Affiliated media: Asia-Plus, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: November 20, 2019

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Tajikistan Times

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

The newspaper Tochikiston, having shared a report based on false information from a fake Facebook account that the editor-in-chief of the Asia-Plus agency had died by committing suicide, continued to spread this lie but supposedly with a refutation of this fact.