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Many journalist killings are preceded by death threats — and often those threats are slow to be addressed and investigated. Even in nations where journalist killings are rare, threats against members of the press are still highly concerning. cpj.org/issue/intern...
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025 - Committee to Protect Journalists
Despite concerted efforts to tackle impunity, the lack of meaningful improvement in accountability for journalist killings in the past decades indicates more must be done to deliver justice. Amid stag...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Many journalist killings are preceded by death threats — and often those threats are slow to be addressed and investigated. Even in nations where journalist killings are rare, threats against members of the press are still highly concerning. cpj.org/issue/intern...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Authorities have banned visits from his wife and warned his family against advocating on his behalf to the wider world.
In May 2019, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated Tajikistan’s treatment of Mr Yorov violated international law and called for his immediate release.
In May 2019, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated Tajikistan’s treatment of Mr Yorov violated international law and called for his immediate release.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Authorities have banned visits from his wife and warned his family against advocating on his behalf to the wider world.
In May 2019, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated Tajikistan’s treatment of Mr Yorov violated international law and called for his immediate release.
In May 2019, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated Tajikistan’s treatment of Mr Yorov violated international law and called for his immediate release.
Just as in Yorov’s first trial, the proceedings were rife with fair-trial violations, including prohibiting him from freely communicating with legal representatives whilst simultaneously being told he was unable to conduct his own defence.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just as in Yorov’s first trial, the proceedings were rife with fair-trial violations, including prohibiting him from freely communicating with legal representatives whilst simultaneously being told he was unable to conduct his own defence.
Since then, his sentence has twice been shortened, before authorities repeatedly brought new, trumped-up charges against him, most recently in July 2023.
The added convictions have extended his sentence, pushing his expected release date to September 2043, by which time he will be 72 years old.
The added convictions have extended his sentence, pushing his expected release date to September 2043, by which time he will be 72 years old.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Since then, his sentence has twice been shortened, before authorities repeatedly brought new, trumped-up charges against him, most recently in July 2023.
The added convictions have extended his sentence, pushing his expected release date to September 2043, by which time he will be 72 years old.
The added convictions have extended his sentence, pushing his expected release date to September 2043, by which time he will be 72 years old.
Mr Yorov was held in pre-trial detention for eight months, during which he was beaten and held in solitary confinement. On October 6, 2016, in a trial riddled with due process violations, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Mr Yorov was held in pre-trial detention for eight months, during which he was beaten and held in solitary confinement. On October 6, 2016, in a trial riddled with due process violations, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
On September 28, 2015, police arrested Yorov, raided his home and offices without a warrant, and charged him with forgery, fraud, “arousing national, racial, local or religious hostility,” and extremism.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On September 28, 2015, police arrested Yorov, raided his home and offices without a warrant, and charged him with forgery, fraud, “arousing national, racial, local or religious hostility,” and extremism.
…one of the few officially registered opposition parties in the country, before it was labelled a terrorist organisation and banned by the state that same month.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
…one of the few officially registered opposition parties in the country, before it was labelled a terrorist organisation and banned by the state that same month.
Yorov, 54, is a fearless human rights lawyer who built a name for himself by taking on high-profile legal cases representing individuals prosecuted by the government on politically motivated charges.
Early Sept 2015, Yorov began representing members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.
Early Sept 2015, Yorov began representing members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Yorov, 54, is a fearless human rights lawyer who built a name for himself by taking on high-profile legal cases representing individuals prosecuted by the government on politically motivated charges.
Early Sept 2015, Yorov began representing members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.
Early Sept 2015, Yorov began representing members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.
Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights.
Buzurgmehr Yorov is serving a 23-year prison sentence because of his work representing political opposition leaders.
Buzurgmehr Yorov is serving a 23-year prison sentence because of his work representing political opposition leaders.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights.
Buzurgmehr Yorov is serving a 23-year prison sentence because of his work representing political opposition leaders.
Buzurgmehr Yorov is serving a 23-year prison sentence because of his work representing political opposition leaders.
