Journalist and civic activist Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva has been charged with public calls to overthrow the government and is being held in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by sources in the law enforcement agencies. On May 19, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan issued a message accusing Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, her ex-husband, an officer […]
On the morning of May 18, employees of the State Committee for National Security and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan detained journalist and civil activist Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva in her apartment and took her away. Until now, she is in custody, but no official announcement has been made about this. It isn’t known what she […]
In Dushanbe, unidentified men in civilian clothes attacked journalists of the TV channel Present Time and the Tajik service of Radio Liberty (Radio Ozodi). According to Anushervon Aripov, the TV crew of Present Time was returning from an interview with Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, a civil activist and journalist who, the authorities believe, was one of the […]
During the dispersal of the participants of the rally in Khorog, held on Monday (May 16), the security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas. 30-year-old Zamir Nazarshoev died, several people were seriously injured. The day before, dozens of people, dissatisfied with the fact that the authorities ignored their demands, gathered in the microdistrict of […]
The Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan reports a successful spring 2022 recruiting campaign and a growing ranks of student volunteers, but human rights activists are receiving complaints from university graduates about being forced into the army. Recently, the country’s Ministry of Defense announced that the plan for spring conscription into the ranks of the armed […]
UN experts expressed serious concern about the growing tension in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), calling on the authorities to ensure the protection of the Pamir minority and respect for human rights in the region. Tensions in GBAO flared last November when the killing of Roshtkal’s resident Gulbiddin Ziyobekov by security forces caused mass protests. […]
In Tajikistan, 10 days have passed since the start of the spring conscription campaign, but human rights activists are already receiving complaints about the so-called raids – the illegal practice of forcibly bringing young people of military age to the military registration and enlistment office, from where, after completing some formalities, they are sent to […]
Three employees of the khukumat of Khovaling district and the secretary of one of the jamoats demand that the presidential administration give a legal assessment of their dismissal from their positions. Sayligul Razzokova, secretary of the jamoat of Shugnov in Khovaling district, said that she worked for thirty years without any remarks in rural self-government […]
After four months of blockade, on March 21, right on Navruz, the access to the Internet for residents of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region of Tajikistan has been restored. In GBAO, the Internet was turned off immediately after the start of riots caused by a protest against the special operation of the SCNS to detain Gulbiddin […]
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