Popular news portal “Bomdod” has ceased its operations

The journalist, founder, and editor-in-chief of the news portal “Bomdod” announced that he is leaving the profession.

On September 5, 2024, Mirzo Salimpur reported on the “Bomdod” website that he is forced to resign due to illness and the need for treatment.

This well-known Tajik journalist previously founded another news portal, “Akhbor.com.” When he launched the “Akhbor” project, many media outlets in Tajikistan ceased their operations. For this reason, “Akhbor” became one of the most important independent news channels. After facing pressure from the Tajik authorities and the blocking of the website, he established the “Bomdod” project. Both news portals garnered millions of views, with hundreds of thousands of subscribers following their news.

“In one of the law enforcement agencies, a special department was even created with several employees who were paid specifically to organize campaigns to discredit the staff of the ‘Akhbor’ sites, and later ‘Bomdod.’ Now, as I leave, I even feel a bit sorry for our counterparts in the agencies who have lost their source of income,” Salimpur writes in his farewell message.

Mirzo Salimpur has been engaged in journalism for over 30 years. He began his career in popular publications in the early 90s – in the youth publication “Djavononi Tojikiston” and the independent weekly “Charogi ruz.” Later, he worked for Radio Ozodi for 15 years, and for the last 8 years, he worked at the two independent news portals “Akhbor” and “Bomdod.”