“These people are obviously paid well for this,” Zukhurov said. He also said that the authorities had received many requests from “indignant Tajik citizens asking that this hotbed of slander be blocked.” Facebook has more than 41,000 users in Tajikistan. However, the country’s three internet providers and three mobile operators blocked access to Facebook starting Monday, This is not the first time Facebook has been blocked in Tajikistan. This ban was also placed in early March for several days in early March.
