Tajikistan has jailed a veteran journalist for criticizing regional officials and another reporter faces 17 years in prison on undisclosed charges in a new clampdown on independent media in the country.
In the southern city of Kulob, Ahmad Ibrohim, a 63-year-old editor in chief of a local newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on January 10 on bribery, extortion, and extremism charges, all of which he den