''Navidi Vakhsh'' was a pro-Islamic,
Tajik-language thrice-weekly newspaper of
Tajikistan. The paper was published in
Khatlon Province
Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...
, south of
Dushanbe.
A number of its reporters were murdered during the country's
1992-1997 civil war, leading
The Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, New York, with correspondents around the world. CPJ promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journ ...
to award it the
International Press Freedom Award, "an annual recognition of courageous journalism". A CPJ report later found "official complicity" in the murder of at least four ''Navidi Vakhsh'' staffers.
References
Newspapers published in Tajikistan
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