Mr. Rajab Mirzo

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  tajikistan.neweurasia.net/2006/11/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/1/2006    Last Visited: 6/16/2008  

  Rajab Mirzo: Authorities Misunderstood Us
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  In his first appearance since the release from jail on November 20, Rajab Mirzo, well-known Tajik journalist and head of the Dushanbe chapter of DPT, claimed the […]

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  www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/ea - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/14/2004    Last Visited: 4/17/2008  

  Ruzi Nav Editor-in-Chief Rajab Mirzo dismissed the allegation as "groundless."

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  www.eurasianet.org/departments/civilsociety/articles/pp - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/21/2004    Last Visited: 4/16/2008  

  Asia Plus quoted "Ruzi Nav" Editor in Chief Rajab Mirzo on August 19 as saying: "[The tax police] seized the edition of 'Nerui Sukhan' and sealed the printing house, and the regular editions of 'Ruzi Nav' and [Islamic Renaissance Party newspaper] 'Najot' have not been published.The tax police officers justified their actions by saying that the number of published copies exceeded the figure given by the newspaper."
  
  In an appeal to President Rakhmonov and members of the international community on August 19, Mirzo charged that "the purpose of closing down the Jiyonkhon publishing house under the pretext of 'Nerui Sukhan's' problem is also to prevent the publication of 'Ruzi Nav' and 'Najot.'" At the same time, the newspaper looked elsewhere for a printer, but to no avail.On August 24, "Ruzi Nav" correspondent Manuchehr Masud said, "The newspaper will not be published even this week because no printing house has volunteered to publish it yet," Avesta reported.In another open letter to the president and the international community, this time on August 26, Mirzo noted that the owners of other printing presses told him that "they have been ordered not to publish" the newspapers stranded by the closure of Jiyonkhon.
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  On October 18, Editor in Chief Mirzo told Iranian radio that "Ruzi Nav," "Nerui Sukhan," and "Olamu Odam," another newspaper unable to find a printer in Tajikistan, were going to be printed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with legal help from the media-assistance foundation Freedom House.Mirzo explained, "We are going to send the newspaper via e-mail [to Bishkek] and we have made a contract with a Kyrgyz transport company, which will deliver the newspapers [to Tajikistan]."
  
  But when the print run arrived in Dushanbe from Bishkek on November 4, it fell afoul of the tax police's transportation division, which promptly impounded it, Asia Plus reported.But before they confiscated the print run, tax police fully explored their options.First, they counted the newspapers to make sure that the actual number corresponded to the declared number of 15,000.Next, they suggested that the shipment could serve as the host for an infectious disease.Finally, Mirzo told the news agency, the tax police declared the newspaper a cultural artifact and shipped it off to the Culture Ministry for a definitive ruling on the legal intricacies of its transportation across borders.
  
  Once again, the official story was at variance with reporting by independent news agencies and the explanations of Editor in Chief Mirzo.
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  Mirzo seemed to agree, telling RFE/RL that the newspaper's staff is preparing to file a lawsuit in the near future.
  
  The Justice Ministry was still readying its review as of November 16, Asia Plus-Blitz reported.An unnamed source at the ministry told the news agency that not every member of the commission appointed to decide the newspaper's fate had managed to examine the material.Queried about "Ruzi Nav's" chances, the source would only say that he didn't find the newspaper's articles so critical that they needed to be banned.

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  ANN/Groong -- RFE/RL Newsline - 06/24/2004 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/24/2004    Last Visited: 6/25/2004  

  Rajab Mirzo, editor in chief of "Ruzi Nav," told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that the changes will mainly benefit printers and importers of printing equipment and supplies.

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  ANN/Groong -- RFE/RL Newsline - 08/03/2004 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/3/2004    Last Visited: 8/4/2004  

  The editor, Rajab Mirzo, was injured in an attack by an unknown assailant in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.

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  ANN/Groong -- RFE/RL Newsline - 08/20/2004 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/20/2004    Last Visited: 8/21/2004  

  "Ruzi Nav" Editor in Chief Rajab Mirzo told the news agency, "We asked several printers to print our paper, but they refused, saying that the tax police had warned them and they couldn't risk printing our newspaper.

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  ANN/Groong -- RFE/RL Newsline - 09/03/2004 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/3/2004    Last Visited: 9/3/2004  

  In comments to Avesta on 2 September, "Ruzi Nav" Editor in Chief Rajab Mirzo said that the independent weekly, which had also been printed at Jiyonkhon, is having similar difficulties finding a new printer.He said that several printing presses have declined to print "Ruzi Nav," citing unofficial instructions "from above."Mirzo noted that "Ruzi Nav" has appealed to state-run printing press Sharqi Ozod.But he added, "I doubt that the response will be positive.

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  ANN/Groong -- RFE/RL Newsline - 11/10/2004 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/10/2004    Last Visited: 11/11/2004  

  Rajab Mirzo, editor in chief of the Tajik independent newspaper "Ruzi Nav," said on 9 November that he intends to file suit against the transportation tax police, Asia Plus-Blitz reported.Police confiscated the newspaper's print run when it arrived in Dushanbe by plane from Bishkek on 4 November (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 8 November 2004).Mirzo told the news agency that tax officials gave conflicting reasons for their actions, citing discrepancies in the stated size of the print run, the possibility of a virus infection, and the need for a special permit to bring in an object of cultural value.Mirzo said that tax police acted illegally and that the seizure of the 15,000-copy print run had cost the newspaper at least $5,000.

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  CASCFEN.org - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/6/2005    Last Visited: 12/6/2005  

  The "Ruzi Nav" editor-in-chief Rajab Mirzo told Asia-Plus this by telephone today.Commenting on the situation, Mr. Rajab Mirzo noted that some organizations present in Dushanbe had agreed to support the weekly staff's intention to print the weekly outside the republic.

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  CENTRAL ASIA: IRIN-CA Weekly Round-up 175 covering the... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/7/2004    Last Visited: 8/7/2004  

  The international press freedom watchdog group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have expressed concern over a violent assault on Rajab Mirzo, editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Ruzi Nav.

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