Navidi Vakhsh

Navidi Vakhsh was a pro-Islamic, Tajik-language thrice-weekly newspaper of Tajikistan. The paper was published in Khatlon Province, 160 kilometres (100 mi) south of Dushanbe.[1]

A number of its reporters were murdered during the country's 1992-1997 civil war,[2] leading The Committee to Protect Journalists to award it the International Press Freedom Award,[3] "an annual recognition of courageous journalism".[4] A CPJ report later found "official complicity" in the murder of at least four Navidi Vakhsh staffers.[5]

References

1. "Journalists Killed in 1993 - Motive Unconfirmed: Saidjonol Fakhriddinov". Committee to Protect Journalists. January 1994. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
2. "CPJ requests information on 29 murdered journalists". Committee to Protect Journalists. 27 August 2003. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
3. "Journalists Receive 1996 Press Freedom Awards". Committee to Protect Journalists. 1996. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
4. "CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2011". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
5. Sherry Ricchiardi (November 2005). "Killing the Messenger". American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 10 May 2006. Retrieved 28 May 2011.