Urunboy Usmonov has been detained since his arrest in June © BBC
GUEST BLOG: By a friend and colleague of imprisoned BBC reporter Urunboy Usmonov
The BBC reporter in Tajikistan, Urunboy Usmonov, has turned down a government offer of freedom in exchange for accepting that he has links with a radical Islamic group, Hezb-i Tahrir.
Mr Usmonov was arrested in June and found guilty of associating with the illegal group: a charge that he flatly denies. The case has attracted a huge amount of attention in Tajikistan and the wider Central Asian region, where it is seen as a watershed in press freedom.
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