 Journalists in both private and state-run media were permitted greater editorial and investigative freedoms to report on issues and to challenge government propaganda.But journalists ran into danger when they publicly confronted powerful interests or reported on violent events.The first journalistic death in Tajikistan occurred on 12 February 1990 when a sniper in a government building opened fire on demonstrators in Dushanbe, killing a number of individuals, including a Lenfilm employee filming the events from his hotel.