16. Recommendation on Filtering sent to ISPs by the
Communications Regulation Agency (unofficial
translation), obtained by ONI researchers, December
2006.
17. See Deutsche Welle, “Access to opposition media
websites is forbidden in Tajikistan,” October 8, 2006,
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2198763
,00.html; Fergana News, “The websites officially
blocked in Tajikistan were announced. Among
them – Ferghana.Ru,” October 9, 2006,
http://www.ferghana.ru/news.php?id=3633&mode=
snews; and SNGnews.ru, “In Tajikistan is closed the
access to some websites,” October 7, 2006,
http://sngnews.ru/articles/5/68007.html (accessed
May 2, 2007).
18. See at SNGnews, “Internet Service Providers in
Tajikistan are prepared for filtering of ‘unsafe’ Web
sites,” http://sngnews.ru/articles/5/68051.html
(accessed May 3, 2007).
19. Article 30 of the Constitution of the Republic of
Tajikistan, 1994.
20. Joanna Lillis, “Tajikistan: No surprises in presidential
elections,” Eurasia Insight, November 6, 2006,
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/
articles/eav110606a.shtml.
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