Tajikistan: Fallout From Failed Protest Plan
| Publisher | Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
| Author | Galim Faskhutdinov |
| Publication Date | 13 November 2014 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | RCA Issue 748 |
| Related Document(s) | Tajik Protest Plan Squashed Before it Starts |
| Cite as | Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Tajikistan: Fallout From Failed Protest Plan, 13 November 2014, RCA Issue 748, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5465cc964.html [accessed 6 June 2023] |
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Experts say an internet-planned demonstration in the capital Dushanbe failed because the 1992-97 civil war began with street protests.
An opposition organisation called Group 24 issued a call on Facebook for an anti-government rally on October 10, but no one turned up.
"Unlike other countries, Tajikistan has a clearly-defined immunity to rallies because our civil war began with that - protests by demonstrators," Abdughani Mamadazimov, head of the Association of Independent Political Scientists, told IWPR.
The authorities responded by banning Group 24 on the grounds that it was an extremist organisation seeking to overthrow the government, deploying police on the streets of Dushanbe, and blocking numerous websites.
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