{"id":27444,"date":"2011-09-30T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27444"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:23:49","slug":"tajikistan-tajik-journalist-faces-16-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27444","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan: Tajik journalist faces 16 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Tajikistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/tajikistan\" target=\"_blank\">Tajik<\/a> journalist is facing <a title=\"CPJ - Tajik journalist faces 16 years in jail if convicted\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2011\/09\/tajik-journalist-faces-16-years-in-jail-if-convict.php\" target=\"_blank\">16 years in prison<\/a>, following charges of defamation.\u00a0Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a reporter for the independent weekly paper\u00a0Nuri Zindagi, was arrested for defamation, insult, and incitement following an article in which he <a title=\"CPJ - Tajik journalist arrested on defamation and insult\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2010\/12\/tajik-journalist-arrested-on-defamation-insult-cha.php\" target=\"_blank\">criticised government and law<\/a> enforcement officials in the Asht district in the northern Sogd region of Tajikistan.\u00a0During his hearing yesterday, prosecutors asked the court to sentence the journalist to 16 years imprisonment, while Ismiolov&#8217;s lawyer claimed investigators had failed to prove he was guilty, and called for his release.\u00a0The next court hearing in the case is scheduled for 3 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tajik journalist is facing 16 years in prison, following charges of defamation.\u00a0Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, a reporter for the independent weekly paper\u00a0Nuri Zindagi, was arrested for defamation, insult, and incitement following an article in which he criticised government and law enforcement officials in the Asht district in the northern Sogd region of Tajikistan.\u00a0During his hearing yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[346,3114,727,7419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27452,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27444\/revisions\/27452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}