Vehicles are stopped from entering the region. At the moment this includes even locals who were blocked by soldiers near the airport outside of Khorugh. I'm sure this means no foreigners will get past the GBAO checkpoint near Kulob (west) or through the border crossing to Osh (north). Information will be throttled heavily as internet is down (and with contradictory anecdotes about phone lines).
Local media has been banned from reporting under threat of imprisonment: https://asiaplustj.info/en/news/tajikis ... ous-region
American-supported media (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's local outlet) is using their protected status to continue reporting. https://www.ozodi.org/a/31854961.html The article has some google translate problems and says that "militants" stopping vehicles from driving to Khorugh. It should be "soldiers" instead. The accompanying video mentions (in Tajik) that drivers were stopped outside Khorugh and not being allowed to enter, which for sure means nobody (foreign) is getting past the first GBAO checkpoint near Kulob (western entrance to Pamirs), via Tavildara or through the Kyrgyzstan border crossing.Asia-Plus Media Group is forced to stop publishing news about events taking place in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan. The situation in GBAO’s capital, Khorog, has escalated again – on the evening of May 16, representatives of local population tried to go to the building of the regional administration but law enforcement officers blocked their paths. As a result, one person was killed and three others were wounded. Unfortunately, we cannot fully cover these events under the threat of closure. Asia-Plus had earlier received an official warning from the Prosecutor-General’s Office and unofficial warning from other government agencies that our publication covers events in the GBAO “unilaterally” and “destabilizes the situation in the country.” Asia-Plus was ordered to “eliminate these shortcomings”, otherwise, our publication is threatened with closure. Taking into the consideration this fact, our editors have decided to refrain for now from reporting events in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region. We apologize to our readers!
RFE/RL has a less detailed article in English: https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-prot ... 54157.html
Anyways... how long this lasts is anybody's guess. I have no idea. Based on past events the closure could be anywhere from weeks long to over a year.