On May 13, the trial of the well-known Tajik blogger and MMA fighter Chorshanbe Chorshanbiev quickly ended with the announcement of a sentence of 8.5 years in a high security colony. The state prosecutor demanded 10 years in prison for him. Chorshanbiev was found guilty of publicly calling for violent change of the constitutional order […]
Social media users posted photos of the demolished house of civil activist Amriddin Alovatshoev, who was convicted last week. An unfinished house in the administrative center of Roshtkal district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) was demolished in late March while Alovatshoev was under arrest. Authorities said the house was built illegally on land owned […]
The first court session concerning the case of Amriddin Alovatshoev (the leader of Badakhshan’s youth in Moscow who was forcibly returned from Russia) began on April 29 in the afternoon in Dushanbe. By evening, the sentence was passed – 18 years in prison. The trial was held in an “open-closed mode” in the pre-trial detention […]
The international organizations Freedom Now and Proskauer Rose LLP called on the UN Working group on arbitrary detention to demand from Dushanbe the release of convicted Tajik lawyer Saidnuriddin Shamsiddinov, who paid with his freedom for posting critical posts on social networks about the illegal actions of some prosecutors and judges of Vakhsh district. The […]
A well-known human rights activist, Izzat Amon, who was sentenced last October by the Tajik court to nine years in prison, has been charged with new fraud. This time, a certain resident of Bokhtar, whose name wasn’t disclosed, turned to law enforcement agencies with a complaint that in 2009, while in Russia, he turned to […]
Mahmadyusuf Ismoilov, a journalist from Asht district of Sughd region, was released on April 16 after almost 9 years in prison. In 2013, he was arrested for extorting money from a local resident. According to investigators, the journalist threatened 39-year-old Sanavbar Akhadova to reveal discrediting information and demanded money for her silence. The court found […]
In Rasht district, in the east of Tajikistan, the trial of the mother and sister of a well-known blogger and government critic Djunaydullo Khudoyorov has begun. 66-year-old Mavdzhigul Garibova and her daughter Valamat are accused of hooliganism, if found guilty, they face up to 7 years in prison. According to investigators, both women inflicted bodily […]
The prosecutor demanded 7 years in prison for the mother of the Tajik blogger, Shokhida Mamadjonova, at the very first court session, which took place on April 7. The state prosecutor said that the guilt of Mamadjonova in collaboration with the banned in the country Group 24 and the Islamic Renaissance Party was established. According […]
The investigation into the case of Shokhida Mamadjonova, who is accused of collaborating with Group 24 banned in Tajikistan, has been completed. On April 4, the criminal case was sent to the Ismoili Somoni District Court in Dushanbe. The first hearing in the case has been scheduled for April 7. The court reported that Mamadjonova […]
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