
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comIT WAS always dangerous to be a journalist or government critic in Tajikistan. Until recently, however, the predatory and paranoid regime of Emomali Rakhmon, the president, left graduate students alone. That changed on June 16th, when Alexander Sodiqov, a Tajik political-science student in Canada who is employed by Britain’s University of Exeter, was detained by the secret police. He is being held incommunicado, but has reportedly been charged with treason for interviewing an opposition leader shortly after meeting the British ambassador, Robin Ord-Smith, at a party. He now faces up to 20 years in jail.Mr Sodiqov was detained while conducting research in Gorno-Badakhshan, a restive, mountainous and sparsely populated...