VOA News Monday, October 11th, 2010 Internet providers in Tajikistan say the government has ordered them to block access to several news websites amid concerns of growing Islamist unrest in the country.
Internet users were denied access to several news sites, including ferghana.ru and avesta.tj.
Tajik government officials
Tajikistan has been on high alert following a series of recent attacks that the government blames on Islamist militants.
The military is engaged in a combat operation in the Rasht Valley — about 75 kilometers from the Afghan border — following last month’s militant ambush on a military convoy that killed 28 soldiers.
The Central Asian nation is a majority-Muslim country and the poorest nation to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly two decades ago.
Some information in this story was provided by AFP and Reuters
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