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  • A court in Tajikistan sentenced a high-profile journalist and government critic to a year in jail for "inciting religious hatred" on Thursday, the head of a media union said. Daler Sharipov was handed the sentence by a court in the capital Dushanbe, according to the chairman of the National Association of Independent Media of Tajikistan, Nuriddin Karshiboyev. Karshiboyev told AFP that Sharipov rejected the accusations of "inciting religious hatred" in a long paper he authored titled "The Prophet Muhammad and Terrorism". But he "admitted that he had made mistakes" in the treatise which argued that Islam did not justify terrorism, Karshiboyev said. The state prosecutor said the text was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement banned in Tajikistan in 2006. Tajik officials arrested scores of people over alleged ties to the movement, which briefly led a government in Egypt before being overthrown in 2013 and banned. The arrests came as Tajikistan prepared to hold parliamentary elections in March and prompted fears of a crackdown on dissent. Several international rights groups called for Sharipov's release after authorities announced they had detained him earlier this year. Sharipov became a popular figure on state television before focusing on writing for independent outlets, where he sometimes commented on the difficulties Muslims face in observing their faith in Tajikistan. More than 90 percent of Central Asian country's population adheres to Islam but the government is secular and wary of the religion's popularity. The US State Department last year cited the Central Asian country for "systematic, ongoing, (and) egregious violations of religious freedom". bur-cr/as/pvh
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  • Tajikistan jails journalist for 'inciting hatred'
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