Stabbed Tajik opposition journalist in intensive care
Tajik opposition journalist Dododzhon Atovulloyev, who was stabbed in Moscow on Thursday night, is now in intensive care at a Moscow hospital, a hospital spokesperson said on Friday, RIA Novosti reported.
The 53-year-old Tajik journalist, charged at home with "libeling the president and government members and urging the overthrow of the constitutional order," was attacked in southwestern Moscow and sustained a serious stomach wound.
"The patient is in grave condition," the spokesperson said.
Atovulloyev emigrated from Tajikistan, now dominated by one party, during the civil war in the 1990s. In the early 2000s, Tajikistan requested his extradition but a global rights campaign stopped the process and he was freed.
Atovulloyev is the editor-in-chief of the Charogi Ruz (Daylight) newspaper and leader of the Vatandor (Patriot) opposition movement.
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