Iskandar Khatloni

Iskandar Chatlonij ( Tajik Искандар Хатлонӣ, English transcription Khatloni; born October 12, 1954 † 21 September 2000 in Moscow ) was a Tajik radio journalist.

Chatlonij studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. He started working as a journalist in the 1980s, the BBC World Service. In 1996 he was Moscow correspondent of the Tajik service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ( RFE / RL ).

On 21 September 2000 Iskandar Chatlonij was killed by unknown assailants in his house with an ax. He was engaged at this time doing research on human rights violations in Chechnya, for which the station had been repeatedly criticized by official agencies.

The or the perpetrators were not caught until now.