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24 Сен 2020

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Czechia)

Tajikistan's internet goes down just as speech by exiled opposition leader delivered online

17 September 2020

Tajikistan on September 16 experienced a one-hour Internet outage that coincided with an address by an exiled opposition leader in the United States that was streamed live online.

Tajikistan's State Communications Service has not given any official explanation for the outage.

The service's representative told RFE/RL on September 17 that the Internet unexpectedly stopped working at around 7:40 p.m. for ”unknown reasons” and that the operator had to switch to its backup system to bring it back after about 30 minutes...

Tajik social-media users say the outage lasted for one hour, some adding that mobile phone service was also affected.

The outage occurred at exactly the time when the exiled chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), Muhiddin Kabiri, was delivering an online address to an event organized by George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

In his address, Kabiri, who resides in an EU country, accused the authorities of barring opposition candidates from taking part in the presidential poll scheduled for October 11...

In recent years, there have been several cases when access to social networks and the websites of independent media outlets have been blocked at sensitive times.