(GDF/IFEX) – On 8 June 1998, around 9 pm local time, unknown individuals burst into the home of journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov, beating and then strangling him with an iron wire. Gavrielov, 70, was a noted journalist who had worked for the Tajik media for more than fifty years. At the time of his murder, Gavrielov […]
(GDF/IFEX) – On 8 June 1998, around 9 pm local time, unknown individuals
burst into the home of journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov, beating and then
strangling him with an iron wire.
Gavrielov, 70, was a noted journalist who had worked for the Tajik media for
more than fifty years. At the time of his murder, Gavrielov was
editor-in-chief of the Tajik Agrarian University newspaper “Donish”, a
position he held since 1979. He was also the author of several books and a
member of the Bukharian (Central Asian) Jewish Section of the Writers Union
of Tajikistan.
According to GDF, more than sixty journalists have been killed in Tajikistan
since 1992.
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death so that the reasons for it are made known and so that those
responsible are tried and punished
Appeals To
His Excellency Imamali Rakhmonov
President of Tajikistan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Fax: +737 722 269 71
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