Temur Varki (Klychev)

Affiliated media: Asia-Plus, Fergana, BBC, Freelancer

Incident date: September 17, 2017

Attack type:

• Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: akhbor-rus.com

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

Tajik от представителей власти opened a criminal case under article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (calls for the overthrow of the constitutional system, and participation in the activities of an extremist group officially banned by Tajik courts). Temur Varki, who since the end of 1992 has mainly lived outside Tajikistan and received political asylum in France in 2016, is a co-founder of the Tajikistan Forum of Free Thinkers, established in February 2018 by a group of Tajik intellectuals in exile.