Tajikistan plans web police force

Published on 14/07/2012 00:00

Tajikistan plans to create a volunteer-run body to monitor internet use and reprimand those who openly criticise the government, the head of the central Asian country’s state-run communications service said yesterday.

Beg Zukhurov said the organisation, while awaiting official registration, had already brought several internet users to task for publishing “insults” against “well-known personalities” in the former Soviet republic.

“Volunteers for this organisation will track down and identify the authors of such comments,” Mr Zukhurov said.

He did not elaborate on what might constitute critical comment.