Posts by Aslan Amani

  • The Alai Mountains from Jiptik Valley.

This image is attributed to Nihongarden and has been made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

    A post-Soviet dictatorship vs. an academic researcher

    Alexander Sodiqov, a University of Toronto PhD candidate, was detained on June 16 by the Tajik KGB while he was conducting academic research in the country’s Gorno-Badakhshan province. His arrest has sent shockwaves through academic communities in Europe and North America.

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