The Committee to Protect Journalists has appealed to the authorities

The human rights organization Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the authorities of Tajikistan to respond to the detention of journalists in Tajikistan.

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Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a journalist rights protection organization based in New York, emphasized in a statement on July 14 that the authorities of Tajikistan must immediately provide information about the whereabouts of journalist Zavkibek Saidamini and blogger Abdusatdor Pirmukhammadzoda and release them from custody without delay.

The statement notes that on July 8, law enforcement officers in civilian clothes detained journalist Zavkibek Saidamini and took him to the Organized Crime Control Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Vahdat, and since then nothing has been heard from the journalist.

It also notes that on July 9, officers from the Organized Crime Control Department of Vahdat summoned Pirmukhammadzoda for questioning. He appeared for questioning, and since then nothing has been heard from him either.

The organization stated that the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter via email to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan requesting a comment on the situation but received no response.