On September 6, another activist from Gorno-Badakhshan, Komyor Mirzoev, was detained in Moscow. According to the Internet portal Pamir Daily News, Mirzoev was active in his blog and wrote on social networks under the nickname Komchek Mirzoev. According to eyewitnesses, police officers entered the apartment in Moscow where the blogger lived with his friends and […]
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 the near future, the Supreme Court of Tajikistan will recognize the “Commission 44” created by civil activists in GBAO as a “criminal community,” ACCA sources said. The authorities do not give any comments on this matter. “Commission 44” was created on November 28 last year immediately after the participants of the spontaneous rallies in […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Over 2,300 students voluntarily dropped out of school and joined the army during the recent spring draft, Tajik Education Minister Rakhim Saidzoda said at a July 19 press conference. According to him, most of the recruits are law graduates who “decided to pass their exams ahead of schedule and pay back to their homeland.” “Many […]
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