Another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan was detained in Moscow. Maksud Gayosov, a civil activist and blogger from Badakhshan, who flew to Russia after the authorities began detaining civil activists in the Pamirs, has been living in a rented apartment in Moscow for six months now. On August 17, the police came to him and took him […]
The Tajik authorities continue repression against national and religious minorities living in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. Residents of the region say that civil activists in Khorog and Rushan continue to be called in for so-called “conversations” and interrogations, forcing them to write receipts that they will no longer take any action against the current government. […]
The authorities have completed the investigation against the journalist and blogger Abdullo Gurbati, and all the materials of the criminal case against him have been submitted to the court. The court of the Shokhmansur district of the capital confirmed that on August 17 they received the materials of the criminal case against Gurbati, but refrained […]
The trial of civic activist and journalist Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva and her ex-husband, an officer of the State Committee for National Security Kholbash Kholbashev, who are called by the authorities “the organizers of the May rallies in GBAO”, is nearing completion. The state prosecutor demanded a sentence of life imprisonment for Kholbashev, and 25 years for […]
The Tajik authorities should release journalists Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva and Khushruz Dzhumaev, drop all charges against them and stop the secret persecution of journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American independent non-profit non-governmental organization based in New York, said on Thursday, August 11. The secret persecution in the Committee is understood as the investigation […]
The court of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Khorog found Khasanali Abdurakhmonov guilty of malicious hooliganism, illegal possession of weapons, as well as membership in an organized criminal group and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. Hasanali is the second son of Tolib Ayombekov, a former commander of the GBAO self-defense detachment, later reintegrated […]
After the May events in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), the so-called cleansing of Khorog from “too active” members of civil society or relatives of “leaders of criminal groups” continues. On August 4, the Court of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan sentenced Muzaffar Davlatmirov, a clergyman of the mahalla “Tirchid” in Khorog, to […]
On July 31, a video was posted on the Behdosht TV YouTube channel in which Oraz and Ramzi Vazirbekov stated that they had voluntarily flown from Russia to Tajikistan and that “they are ready to answer all the questions of the investigation.” Both “heroes” of the video are ethnic Pamiris and are known for their […]
On July 29, the Regional Court of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region passed a sentence against the brother of Alim Sherzamonov, an opposition figure living abroad. Muslim Sherzamonov, 56, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for “participation in a criminal group”, although relatives say that, unlike his brother, he was not interested in politics at […]
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