The former security officer, who criticized the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security, was sent to jail for a period of 7 years. Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov worked in the National Security agencies for 25 years. Prior to that, he worked in the youth newspaper “Komsomol Tochikiston” [“Member of the Komsomol of Tajikistan]. After his […]
One of the founders of the Islamic Renaissance Party (banned in Tajikistan), 80-year-old Zubaydullo Rozik, who has been serving a 25-year sentence since 2016, was again placed in a punishment cell. The administration of the prison in Vakhdat punished him for violating the regime of detention in the colony and sent him to a punishment […]
Another civil activist from the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast was detained in Moscow. According to people close to Mamadbek Atobekov, two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan came to his house together with a squad of local police. “Most likely, Mamadbek, like Oraz and Ramzi (the Vazirbekov brothers were illegally taken from Russia […]
After an inspection organized by the competent authorities with the participation of representatives of the Committee for Religious Affairs, about ten small shops selling religious goods and literature near the central mosque in Dushanbe were closed. One of the employees of the Department of Religious Associations under the Committee for Religious Affairs said that they […]
Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, called on the Tajik authorities to stop the practice of illegal detentions and unfair trials of residents of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, where peaceful rallies were suppressed in May this year. HRW’s August 23 statement on the situation in GBAO stated: “The Tajik authorities must put an […]
In Dushanbe, Salam Imomnazarov, the son of the deceased informal leader of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Imomnazar Imomnazarov, was sentenced to 16 years in prison, he was killed in 2012 under mysterious circumstances in his own house. Salam Imomnazarov was convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan, including drug trafficking. The trial […]
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 […]
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