At its plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday 18 January, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the repression of independent media in Tajikistan (481 votes in favour, 25 against and 26 abstentions).
“Media freedom is in the worst possible situation since 1991”, lamented Michaela Šojdrová (EPP, Czech), one of the authors of the resolution, during a debate on the eve of the vote. “Some journalists have been sentenced to prison terms for their work in 2022 and...