In May Zaid Saidov, a former industry minister who is now in - TopicsExpress



          

In May Zaid Saidov, a former industry minister who is now in business, was arrested on an eight-year-old corruption charge, after launching a political party. Now he is being defamed in the press and held with limited access to his lawyer. His party colleagues, some of Tajikistan’s best minds, are being harassed: warned to watch for falling bricks. The death threats, from anonymous callers and affable agents of the spy service (still known, unaffectionately, as the KGB), extend to their children. “It hasn’t been this bad in the 20 years of independence,” says Nuriddin Karshibaev, head of a press-freedom lobby, who sees the Saidov case as a warning to the middle class to shun politics.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:27:27 +0000

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