DUSHANBE, April 5, 2013, Asia-Plus – Investigators from the police station in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district have considered an application lodged by Mr. Abdujabbor Rahmonov, Chancellor of Tajik State Teachers’ Training University against the Asia-Plus stringer, Ms. Marhabo Hokim, and have come to a conclusion that there were no violations in her actions, Shuhrat Qudratov, a lawyer for the newspaper Asia-Plus, said.

“Investigators said that they did not find any violations in Marhabo Hokim’s actions, and therefore, they returned the application to the chancellor,” Qudratov said.    

We will recall that the Asia-Plus stringer, Ms. Marhabo Hokim, was summoned to the police station in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district on April 1 following an application by Abdujabbor Rahmonov, Chancellor of Tajik State Teachers’ Training University.

In his application, Mr. Rahmonov in particular, asks police to probe “the wrong and illegal actions of journalist.”

On the morning of April 1, Ms. Marhabo Hokim went to the Tajik State Teachers’ Training University named after Sadriddin Ayni in order to find out whether a dress code has really been introduced for female students from this university.

She talked to a number of female students and then decided to ask the chancellor to comment on his decision to introduce a dress code for female students of the university.  But Abdujabbor Rahmonov shouted at her and took photo camera, mobile phone and dictaphone from her.  All this happened before students’ eyes, the Asia-Plus stringer says.

The chancellor then invited the stringer to his office and said that it was none of her business “what rules he has established in his university.”  He then wrote an application to the police station in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district.