UNFOUNDED CASE: Tajik Journalist Jailed For Seven And A Half Years For Allegedly Insulting Cop And Extremist Group Membership
(starts) A Tajik journalist has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for assaulting a police officer and membership of a banned extremist group. The journalist and documentary filmmaker Avazmad Ghurbatov, aged 26, was jailed behind closed doors in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on Tuesday, 4th October. Ghurbatov, who…