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Tajikistan: Opposition Member Severely Beaten

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Tajikistan, Freedom of Speech, Politics

Christya Riedel reports [1] that Hikmatullo Saifullozoda, a 60 year old editor of the opposition newspaper Najot and a prominent member of the Tajikistan opposition, was brutally beaten by unidentified perpetrators near his home in the capital city Dushanbe.