Relatives of Shokhida Makhmadzhonova, the mother of Sherzod Makhmadzhonov (a well-known Tajik blogger who lives in Germany and maintains his YouTube channel under the nickname Abdurahmon 09), claim that she was summoned on February 3 to the police department in the city of Vakhdat and illegally detained there. According to the journalists of Radio Ozodi, […]
“In 2021, the Ombudsman’s office of Tajikistan received 15 appeals from citizens on the use of torture and cruel treatment,” Mukim Ashurov, head of the Department for the protection of civil and political rights in the Ombudsman’s office of the country, said at a press conference on February 3. According to him, all these appeals […]
The international human rights organization HRW again criticized in its regular report the human rights situation in Tajikistan. “The human rights situation in Tajikistan continued to deteriorate amid continued crackdown on freedom of expression and political opposition, as well as harassment of independent lawyers, journalists and family members of opposition activists based abroad. The government […]
“During the first half of the year, the secretariat of the Legal Aid Group and member organizations of the Coalition documented 14 complaints on the use of torture and cruel treatment. Work continued on 9 cases of previous years,” human rights activists said. “Major human rights violations were during arrest and investigation: unlawful and arbitrary […]
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan announced a verdict in a criminal case against former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan accused of committing a number of crimes, including torture against a resident of Tursunzoda city Khasan Edgorov. This was reported by the […]
About 4,500 checks were carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office in the criminal justice system in 2020. This was stated during a press conference by the Prosecutor General of Tajikistan, Yusuf Rahmon. According to the Prosecutor General, as a result of inspections, acts of prosecutorial response were issued against 34 officials, criminal cases were initiated […]
Residents of Rushansky district of Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous oblast extended an appeal to the President, the Parliament, and the Prosecutor general of the country asking them to stop the arbitrary actions by law enforcement agencies. Recall that over the past month, protests against the illegal actions of security officials have been held in this region several […]
On March 20, the judicial collegium for civil affairs of the military collegium under the Supreme Court of Tajikistan upheld the decision of the Garrison court of Dushanbe to partially satisfy claims of the parents of K.Kh., who committed suicide as a result of torture and cruel treatment. Lawyers do not agree with the assigned […]
The Prosecutor General of Tajikistan, Yusuf Rahmon, during a press conference said that the number of complaints to the Prosecutor’s office regarding the use of torture decreased by 3 times. Yusuf Rahmon noted that in 2019, his department received only 14 complaints about the use of torture by law enforcement agencies. “In 2018, there were […]
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