On the morning of June 27, officers of the Organized Crime Department of Tajikistan came to the home of the relatives of independent journalist Anora Sarkorova (who lives abroad and actively covers events in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast on social networks) and took her mother and brother with them. They were released after interrogation. Anora […]
UN Special Rapporteur on human trafficking Siobhan Mullally criticized the practice of the authorities of Tajikistan to involve schoolchildren and students in rehearsals (the word ‘marches’ is popular among the population) on the occasion of holidays and ceremonial events, mass meetings, processions, meetings of high-ranking guests and the President of the country during his working […]
In Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Tajikistan, the so-called special operation of the country’s security forces continues to clean up, according to them, from the leaders and members of organized criminal groups. The people of Badakhshan consider them civil activists who are fighting for the rights of the inhabitants of the autonomy and against the […]
Media organizations in Tajikistan issued a joint statement in which they stuck up for journalists who had come under pressure from the authorities. In their statement, they criticized the attack on Radio Ozodi’s journalists Mulloradjab Yusufzoda and Barot Yusufi, as well as on Present Time’s journalists Anushervon Aripov and Nasim Isamov. On May 17, 2022, […]
In Rasht district, the court sentenced 66-year-old Mavdzhigul Garibova (the mother of a well-known blogger and government critic Djunaydullo Khudoyorov) to two years of house arrest. The court found her guilty of hooliganism, although the woman herself is sure that she was slandered and intends to challenge the court’s verdict. The criminal case under the […]
Among the detained activists in Khorog (the administrative center of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO)), there is a well-known lawyer and human rights activist Manuchehr Kholiknazarov, head of the Pamir Lawyers Association, a member of the Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan and the public Commission 44. Presumably, he was detained on […]
On May 30, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon dismissed Khomidjon Muhammadzoda, Chairman of the City Court of Khujand. According to the state news agency “Khovar”, Muhammadzoda was relieved in connection with the commission of an act discrediting the honor and dignity of a judge. With the same wording, Rustam Makhmadsaidzoda (a judge of the […]
The authorities continue to repress and detain participants of rallies unauthorized by the authorities in November and May of this year in Khorog. Over the past weekend in Khorog, more than ten members of the so-called Commission 44 (an unregistered public association which was created in the administrative center of GBAO on the last day […]
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced five relatives of Said Abdullo Nuri, the late former leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (banned in Tajikistan) and the United Tajik Opposition (during the years of civil strife), to various prison terms. Nurullo Saidov (Nuri’s younger brother) and Mukhibullo Saidov (one of his nephews) were sentenced […]
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