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Asia-Plus: Authorities explain shootout at Khujand SIZO to UN Committee Against Torture
Asia-Plus, dated 17 April 2026, reports that Tajik authorities, while presenting their human-rights report to the UN Committee Against Torture, provided details on the shooting incident of 31 January 2026 at the Khujand temporary detention facility (SIZO). The article states that Umed Karimzoda (Умед Каримзода), First Deputy Prosecutor General of Tajikistan,…
Asia-Plus: 2 кормандони тиб Норак ба тасарруфи 530 ҳазор ҷарима 100 ҳазор
The article reports that on 10 March 2026 the Norak City Court convicted Sirojiddin Boev, chief accountant, and Muhiddin Yadgorov, warehouse manager, of the Norak Primary Health Care institution of embezzlement and service forgery under Article 245 part 4(b) and Article 323 of the Criminal Code. According to the Anti-Corruption Agency announcement of 15 Apri…
Азаттык Азия: В TJ расследуют смерть срочника Азимзода
Azattyq Asia (Russian edition), 16 April 2026. The article reports that the Military Prosecutor's Office of Tajikistan has opened an investigation into the death of 25-year-old border-troops serviceman Isrofil Azimzoda (Исрофил Азимзода), who died approximately two weeks after starting service. His funeral took place on 14 April in his home Rudaki district (…
Asia Plus: Saidovs son appeal Have mercy on children
The report states that Khayrullo Saidov, son of jailed Tajik businessman and former politician Zayd Saidov, has publicly appealed to the authorities of Tajikistan not to enforce a court-ordered confiscation of the family's last remaining residence in central Dushanbe. The report states that, according to a Facebook post by Khayrullo Saidov, court enforcement…
Asia-Plus: Муроҷиати писари Зайд Саидов
Asia-Plus (Tajik edition), 15 April 2026. The article reports on a public appeal posted on Facebook by Khayrullo Saidov (Хайрулло Саидов) — son of imprisoned businessman and former Minister of Industry Zayd Saidov (Зайд Саидов) — addressed to Tajik authorities. According to the article, Khayrullo wrote that officials responsible for enforcing a court decisio…
HRW: UPR submission Tajikistan
The report states it is Human Rights Watch's submission to the 53rd Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Tajikistan, dated 9 April 2026. The report states it highlights HRW's concerns regarding the Tajik government's compliance with international obligations since the last UPR in 2021, including violent crackdowns on peaceful protests i…
The Human Rights: TJ forces young men into army refuse face prosecution
The report states that Tajikistan's compulsory military service, governed by the Law on Universal Military Duty and Military Service, requires all male citizens aged 18 to 27 to complete two years of service, with biannual conscription cycles in April-June and October-December, and that paper exemptions for students, sole breadwinners and certain medical con…
Asia-Plus: ВМКБ ва Хатлон 100% нақшаи даъват ба артиш
Tajik-language report by Asia-Plus dated 1 April 2026 (corrected version), on the first day of the spring conscription season. The article reports that the government of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (ВМКБ / Вилояти Мухтори Куҳистони Бадахшон) announced full (100%) fulfilment of its military call-up plan on day one, as it has done in prior years. Да…
Asia-Plus: Последнее сообщение я останусь живым уроженец TJ Украина
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 7 October 2025. The article reports on the death of 23-year-old Islomiddin Rakhmatov (Исломиддин Рахматов), a native of Tajikistan, fighting on Russia's side in the war against Ukraine. The article reports on an interview with his widow Sumaya Saidova (Сумая Саидова), who returned to Tajikistan from Russia. According to the artic…
UN Geneva: CAT 4th periodic review TJ penitentiary reform
The UN Geneva meeting summary dated 15 April 2026 reports the Committee against Torture's review of Tajikistan's fourth periodic report (CAT/C/TJK/4). The report states that Committee Experts welcomed Tajikistan's progress in penitentiary reform while raising questions about training on the Convention for law enforcement and judicial personnel and the treatm…
Asia-Plus: Sughd entrepreneur fined 117,000 somoni for birthday celebration
Asia-Plus, dated 30 March 2026, reports that the Bobojon Ghafurov district court in Sughd region fined Amirjon Kholmatov (Амирҷон Холматов), 29, head of the LLC "Sikhkabobi Amiri," 117,000 somoni for holding a birthday celebration "outside the family circle" and violating the law on regulation of festivities and ceremonies. The article states that Sughd poli…
Asia-Plus: Долговая ловушка в Таджикистане как не пожалеть о кредите
Feature article by Asia-Plus (author Пайрав Чоршанбиев / Payrav Chorshanbiev), dated 16 March 2026, on personal-debt risks in Tajikistan. The article opens with the story of Акбар (Akbar), a 34-year-old Dushanbe taxi driver who reportedly took out a bank loan a year earlier to buy an electric vehicle. The article reports his account that he underestimated in…
Asia-Plus: Роҳбари Левакант 10 ҳазор ришва 15 ҳазор ҷарима
The article reports that on 28 February 2026 the Levakand City Court convicted Abduzhabbor Sayfiddinzoda, the former head of the apparatus of the Levakand city administration, of abuse of office under Article 314 part 1 of the Criminal Code. According to the Anti-Corruption Agency, in June 2024, while holding that position, he demanded and received 10,000 so…
Asia-Plus: 62% даромади буҷет андозҳо 2025
The article reports that in 2025 taxes accounted for 62.1% of total revenues of Tajikistan's state budget, citing data from the Agency on Statistics. According to Asia-Plus, tax revenues reached approximately 37.5 billion somoni — 25.6% above the planned figure and 28.6% higher than tax receipts in 2024. The article breaks down the composition of tax revenue…
USCIRF 2026 Annual Report — Tajikistan (CPC)
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2026 Annual Report, published March 2026 and signed by Chair Vicky Hartzler and Vice Chair Asif Mahmood, recommends Tajikistan for redesignation as a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC). The Tajikistan chapter (pp. 48–49) reports that religious freedom conditions remained poor in 2025 and that…
TimesCA: Why Tajikistan's Courts Rarely Hand Down Acquittals
The Times of Central Asia article "Why Tajikistan's Courts Rarely Hand Down Acquittals", dated 24 February 2026 and authored by Vagit Ismailov, examines the near-total absence of acquittals in Tajik criminal proceedings. The report states that the issue has once again become the focus of public debate following a statement by the chairman of Tajikistan's Sup…
Asia-Plus: Додгоҳҳои Тоҷикистон 216.3 млн сомонӣ дар як сол
The article reports that in 2025 the courts of Tajikistan transferred more than 216.3 million somoni to the state budget through fines, property confiscations, damages recovered for the state, and state duty payments — over 90.7 million somoni more than in 2024. The figures were announced by Rustam Mirzozoda, chair of the Supreme Court, at a press conference…
Asia-Plus: Саркашии 27 ҷавон аз хидмати ҳарбӣ ҳабс
Asia-Plus (Tajik edition), 19 February 2026. The article reports that during the past year (2025), courts in Tajikistan examined 120 criminal cases against 96 young men for evasion of military service, imprisoning 27 of them and fining 69 others. The article cites a representative of the Supreme Court (Додгоҳи олӣ) who on 18 February provided the figures to…
Khovar: Ба буҷет 2 млрд сомонӣ аз бақияи қарзи андоз ворид
The article reports that on 13 February 2026 at a press conference in Dushanbe, Nusratullo Davlatzoda (Нусратулло Давлатзода), Chairman of the Tax Committee under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, announced tax-collection figures for 2025. The article reports that as of 1 January 2026 the aggregate tax arrears across the country stood at 1.0917 b…
Khovar: Бонкҳои ТҶ 2025 30 млрд сомонӣ қарз
The article reports that on 11 February 2026 the National Bank of Tajikistan (Бонки миллии Тоҷикистон) announced lending figures for 2025. The article reports that the volume of loans issued by the country's banks to clients in 2025 amounted to 30 billion somoni, which the article reports is 22.1 percent higher than in the preceding year. The article reports…
Human Rights Watch: World Report 2026 — Tajikistan chapter (Russian) — contains Ergashev 8-year sentence
Human Rights Watch World Report 2026 — Tajikistan chapter in Russian. Contains HRW's annual summary of the human-rights situation in Tajikistan, including detail on the Dilmurod Ergashev 8-year sentence following deportation from Germany (February 2025). The Russian version contains formulations on some named cases that do not appear in the English version v…
Khovar: 26.5 млрд сомонӣ андозҳо 2025 буҷет
The article reports that state news agency Khovar published a release dated 24 January 2026 stating that in 2025 the state budget of Tajikistan received 26.5 billion somoni from domestic taxes and payments, which the article reports was 3.598 billion somoni above the planned figure. The article reports that the figure was presented on 23 January 2026 at an e…
Trade.gov: Tajikistan Trade Financing
The report states that this is the U.S. International Trade Administration's Tajikistan Country Commercial Guide — Trade Financing chapter, last updated 21 January 2026. Under Methods of Payment, the report states that payments between corporate entities must be processed through banks, but most companies prefer not to use letters of credit due to high taxat…
Asia-Plus: Dushanbe police fined and jailed more than 160 fortune-tellers and magic practitioners last year
Asia-Plus, dated 10 January 2026, reports that Dushanbe police in 2025 fined and administratively detained more than 160 people for "practising sorcery, divination and fortune-telling." The article states criminal cases were opened against 14 individuals on suspicion of repeat offences. According to the article, citing a 9 January announcement by the capital…
HRW World Report 2026: Tajikistan
The Russian-language country chapter on Tajikistan in Human Rights Watch's World Report 2026 covers events in 2025. According to the report, the ruling party consolidated power through parliamentary elections held without independent observers, and the authorities continued to prosecute dissent, handing long prison terms to public figures and journalists. Th…
Diplomat: TJ external debt grows in complexity
Diplomat — TJ external debt grows in complexity. English-language source on Tajikistan (debt economic), published 2026-01-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classific…
BTI: Tajikistan Country Report
The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) 2026 Tajikistan Country Report states that Tajikistan is a consolidated authoritarian state in which President Emomali Rahmon, his family and a small circle of confidants have monopolised political power and control over major economic enterprises. The report states that the 2025 parliamentary elections f…
HRW World Report: TJ chapter
Human Rights Watch World Report 2026, Tajikistan chapter (Events of 2025), reports that the ruling People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan won 49 of 63 lower-house seats in March parliamentary elections — the first since the civil war without independent observers, with OSCE/ODIHR monitoring cancelled in February. The document reports that in February the Su…
World Economics: Tajikistan's Informal Economy
The World Economics page "Tajikistan's Informal Economy Size" presents the country's estimated shadow-economy share of GDP alongside comparative data for other countries. The report states that an informal economy (informal sector or shadow economy) is the part of any economy that is neither officially taxed nor monitored, and that World Economics maintains…
HRW World Report 2026: Tajikistan (chapter on 2025 events)
Human Rights Watch's World Report 2026 chapter on Tajikistan covers events of 2025. The article reports that the ruling People's Democratic Party took 49 of 63 seats in March parliamentary elections held without independent observers; the OSCE/ODIHR cancelled its monitoring mission after accreditation was withheld, and RFE/RL's Tajik service was also denied…
Asia-Plus: Самые громкие преступления 2025
The article, published by Asia-Plus on 25 December 2025 and titled "From tragedies with children to political trials. The most high-profile crimes of 2025 in Tajikistan", is a year-end round-up. The article reports on a Tursunzoda case in which Parviz Odinaev (Парвиз Одинаев) severely beat his 15-year-old son Khusrav Odinaev (Хусрав Одинаев), dragged him tie…
Asia-Plus: Нав ҷаримаҳо зодрӯз хатнасур либос сармиллӣ 2025
Asia-Plus article (Tajik, published 09.12.2025) reports that under the 2026 Tajik State Budget Law, the base Calculation Indicator (нишондиҳанда барои ҳисобҳо / показатель для расчётов) will rise from 75 somoni to 78 somoni effective 1 January 2026. The article states that because this indicator is used to compute taxes, duties, fines, mandatory payments, so…
NewsGram: Religion Identity Governance TJ hijab beards miniskirts
NewsGram (India), authored by Dhruv Sharma and updated 25 November 2025 (dated 22 November 2025), is a human-rights feature examining Tajikistan's restrictions on hijabs, beards and "non-traditional clothing" in regional context. The article reports that over 95% of Tajikistan's population is Muslim and that President Emomali Rahmon, in power since the mid-1…
Forum18: Russia Wanted List
Forum 18 (Oslo), dated 12 November 2025 and by-lined Felix Corley and Victoria Arnold, reports that Russia's Interior Ministry Federal Wanted List includes at least 45 individuals facing criminal charges for exercising freedom of religion or belief. The document reports the breakdown: 4 opponents of Russia's war on religious grounds; 7 Muslim Nursi readers;…
HRW: Germany-based Tajik dies in custody
Human Rights Watch dispatch by Hugh Williamson, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division, dated 11 November 2025 (Berlin), reports the death in custody of Saidazam Rahmonov, a 29-year-old Tajik man who had been living in central Germany since 2019. The report states he was married to a German woman and travelled to Tajikistan in June 2025 to gather d…
RFERL: Forced labor Central Asian cotton fields
The RFE/RL feature dated 2 November 2025 by Farangis Najibullah, reported jointly with Azattyq Asia and the Tajik and Turkmen Services, reports that public workers and students in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are being coerced into cotton picking under threats of job loss or punishment. The report states that authorities claim participation is vol…
Asia-Plus: Более 5000 таджикистанцев невыездные из-за долгов
News report by Asia-Plus dated 20 October 2025, on exit restrictions imposed on debtors in Tajikistan. The article reports figures released by the Служба исполнения при правительстве РТ (Enforcement Service under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan) for the first nine months of 2025. The article reports that 1,600 citizens included on the Service's…
Asia Plus: Over 5000 TJ citizens banned from leaving due to debt
The Asia Plus article dated 20 October 2025, citing a report by the Enforcement Service under the Government of Tajikistan, reports that more than 5,000 Tajik citizens have been banned from leaving the country due to unpaid debts. The article states that over the first nine months of 2025, around 1,600 individuals listed in the national debtor registry were…
Freedom For Eurasia: Return from Germany torture death
Freedom For Eurasia statement published 14 October 2025. The article reports on the death of 29-year-old Tajik citizen Rahmonov Saidazam following his return from Germany. The report states that Rahmonov arrived in Germany in 2018, applied for asylum in 2022, and was married to a German citizen; German immigration officials rejected his warnings that return…
Civil Rights Defenders: Yorov decade wrongfully held
The report states that on 29 September 2025, Civil Rights Defenders published a joint statement (signed by 12 organisations including Amnesty International, CIVICUS, Freedom Now, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, the International Commission of Jurists, International Partners…
ICJ: Yorov wrongfully held for a decade
The report states that on 29 September 2025, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with 11 other organisations including Amnesty International, CIVICUS, Civil Rights Defenders, Freedom Now, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, International Partnership for Huma…
JURIST: HRW urges TJ release Yorov
The report states that on 29 September 2025, JURIST News (authored by Reza Hossaini of Newcastle Law School) covered Human Rights Watch's condemnation of Tajikistan's authorities for wrongfully imprisoning lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov for 10 years. The report states HRW cited politically motivated charges linked to Yorov's work representing opposition figures. Th…
Freedom Now: Buzurgmehr Yorov case
The case profile, published by Freedom Now, documents the prosecution of Tajik human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov (born 9 July 1971), arrested on 28 September 2015 and ultimately sentenced to 28 years in prison. According to the profile, Yorov worked as an investigator in the Department of Internal Affairs in Dushanbe, earned his law degree in 1997, and in…
HRW: 5 Pamiri political prisoners died
Human Rights Watch news release dated 3 September 2025 (Berlin) reports the deaths in custody during 2025 of five ethnic Pamiri political prisoners and calls for prompt, impartial investigation. The report names: Kulmamad Pallaev, 50, a civic activist from Rushan (died January, reportedly after authorities told him to "tolerate the pain"); Bogsho Imatshoev,…
Asia-Plus: TJ military conscription FAQ
The report states that Tajikistan's autumn conscription campaign runs from 1 October to 30 November and, in a Q&A with Dilrabo Samadova, executive director of the Office of Civil Liberties, sets out the main rules. According to the report, the paid alternative "quota" service is available at local military commissariats and currently costs 750 calculation un…
HRW: Debt Traps predatory microfinance
Human Rights Watch report dated 24 September 2025, titled "Debt Traps: Predatory Microfinance Loans and Exploitation of Cambodia's Indigenous Peoples," documents predatory lending by Cambodian banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs). The report states that MFIs which received foreign investment have engaged in predatory lending and collection practices, e…
Азаттык Азия: After mysterious deaths of Pamiris in Tajik prisons, calls for sanctions against Dushanbe
Azattyq Asia (Radio Ozodi) article dated 14 August 2025 on deaths of Pamiri detainees in Tajik prisons and an 8-organisation joint statement calling for targeted sanctions against Tajik officials.…
Asia-Plus: Омбудсмен осуждённые по госперевороту нам не жаловались
Asia-Plus article dated 5 August 2025 reporting that relatives and defenders of the nine people convicted in the "coup case" have not approached Tajikistan's Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman), and accordingly no meetings have taken place in the penal colonies. The article reports Ombudsman Умед Бобозода (Umed Bobozoda) stated at a 4 August press conf…
FIDH: End systematic repression Pamiri people
Published by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) on 5 August 2025, the joint civil society statement (Paris, 4 August 2025) condemns the ongoing repression of Pamiri Indigenous Peoples in Tajikistan. The report states that repression has intensified since the 2022 crackdown in Gorno-Badakhsha…
Khovar: 13.7 млрд сомонӣ қарз дар шаш моҳи 2025
Tajik-language news report by the National Information Agency of Tajikistan "Khovar" (АМИТ «Ховар»), dated 1 August 2025 at 17:30, filed from Dushanbe by correspondent Марзия Саидзода (Marziya Saidzoda). The article reports that the National Bank of Tajikistan (Бонки миллии Тоҷикистон) announced growth in the volume of loans issued in the country during the…
Forum18: Ismaili Davlatmirov prison death
Forum 18 (Oslo), dated 30 June 2025 and by-lined Felix Corley, reports the prison death of Muzaffar Vafonazarovich Davlatmirov, a leading Ismaili Muslim khalifa (cleric) from Mountainous Badakhshan. The report states he died on 26 June 2025 aged 61, in General Regime Prison YaS 3/6 at Yavan in Khatlon Region, nearly three years into a five-year sentence. The…
Spheres: Dressing for the State TJ moral laws
Published by Spheres of Influence (Canada) on 10 June 2025, this long-form article by Marine Krauzman (edited by Khushi Mehta) examines Tajikistan's moral laws regulating dress and religious expression. The article finds that on 20 June 2024, the Tajik government signed Law No. 2048 banning clothing "alien to national culture" (notably the hijab) and imposin…
Avesta: МВД опровержение статьи Radio Ozodi
Avesta news report (Russian, published 7 June 2025, 10:40) reports on a denial issued by the Press Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan (пресс-служба МВД РТ) in response to a 4 June 2025 report by Radio Ozodi. The article states Radio Ozodi's report was titled "Charges against five persons, including a native of Tajikista…
Avesta: MVD of Tajikistan issues "refutation" of Radio Ozodi article — 7 June 2025
Avesta Russian-language publication of the Tajik Ministry of Internal Affairs' formal "refutation" of a Radio Ozodi investigative article. Primary-source record of the official MVD position and the mechanism by which the ministry responds to independent reporting.…
Asia-Plus: Convicts in 'coup case' Usmonzoda, Iskandarov and Hakimov transferred to Vahdat colony
Asia-Plus reports on 16 May 2025 that three political figures convicted in the "treason case" — Saidjafar Usmonzoda (Саидджафар Усмонзода), former chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan and former MP; Akbarsho Iskandarov (Акбаршо Искандаров), former chairman of the Supreme Council of Tajikistan; and Shokirjon Hakimov (Шокирджон Хакимов), lawyer and f…
Asia-Plus: 6 individuals punished for electricity theft
The report states that on 2 May 2025, Asia-Plus reported the Tajik Interior Ministry had opened administrative and criminal cases against at least six individuals suspected of "stealing" electricity in the past week, following the tightening of penalties for illegal electricity use. The report states authorities stated the individuals caused hundreds of thou…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court considers review of 1,500 convictions for "likes"
Asia-Plus Tajik-language report on the prospect of review by the Supreme Court of approximately 1,500 convictions for social-media likes and emoji under Articles 179 and 307 of the Criminal Code, following the April 2025 decriminalisation amendment. Complements the RBC report already in the library.…
Amnesty International: Tajikistan Annual Report 2024 (Tajik edition)
Amnesty International (Tajik edition), dated 30 April 2025, publishes its annual report on Tajikistan covering 2024. The report states that persecution of any critical opinion continued. Civil society activists, government critics and independent journalists, including those in exile, faced intimidation and politically motivated criminal cases. The rights to…
Amnesty International (Tajik): annual report on Tajikistan 2024 — 30 April 2025
Amnesty International's annual country report on Tajikistan covering 2024, published in Tajik. Covers freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; arbitrary detention and torture; unfair trials; women's rights; and the GBAO situation. Primary-source Tajik-language human-rights record for the calendar year.…
Радио Озоди: Хамрохон Зарифи подал надзорную жалобу по делу о госперевороте
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 30 April 2025, reports that Хамрохон Зарифи (Hamrohon Zarifi), former Tajik foreign minister convicted in the "coup case," has filed a supervisory-review appeal (надзорная жалоба) with the Tajik Supreme Court. Article reports, citing a reliable source, that Zarifi submitted the appeal the previous week a…
Asia-Plus: Хочу жить 930 граждан TJ в армию РФ для войны Украина
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 24 April 2025. The article reports on data published by the Ukrainian state project "Khochu Zhit" (Хочу жить / "I Want to Live") concerning Tajik citizens recruited into Russia's armed forces to fight in Ukraine. According to the article, the list published on the project's Telegram channel contains the names of 931 Tajik citizen…
Asia Plus: Beginning of seizure of assets of prominent figures
The report states that on 18 April 2025, Asia-Plus (citing Radio Ozodi) reported Tajik authorities had begun seizing the assets of prominent figures imprisoned on charges of attempting a coup. The report states relatives said representatives of the Enforcement Service had warned them to vacate their homes after the court ruling became legally binding. The re…
Asia-Plus: Конфискация имущества фигурантов дела о госперевороте
Asia-Plus article dated 17 April 2025 reporting, citing Radio Ozodi, that Tajikistan's authorities have begun confiscating property belonging to the political figures convicted in the "coup case". The article reports that a house belonging to ex-chair of the Democratic Party Саидджафар Усмонзода (Saidjafar Usmonzoda) in Farkhor district was confiscated; the…
Радио Озоди: В Таджикистане началась конфискация имущества политиков по делу о госперевороте
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 17 April 2025, reports the start of property confiscation targeting Tajik politicians convicted in the "coup case." Article reports, citing relatives, that authorities began seizing property after sentences took effect, with some families warned to vacate homes and planning to appeal. Article reports the…
RBC: Tajikistan backs ban on prosecution for social-media 'likes'
On 12 April 2025 the Russian news outlet RBC (RBK), under a byline of Tatyana Zykina, reported that Tajikistan's Chamber of Representatives (Majlisi Namoyandagon, lower house of parliament) had unanimously approved amendments to the country's Criminal Code banning criminal prosecution for "likes" on social media. According to the article, citing Asia-Plus, t…
RBC: Tajikistan's lower house unanimously approves amendments decriminalising 'likes' and emoji under extremism and terrorism articles — 1,507 persons currently serving sentences
On 12 April 2025 RBC published a news report in Russian stating that the lower house of the Tajik parliament (Majlisi Namoyandagon) had unanimously approved amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan exempting 'likes' and emoji from criminal liability under Articles 179(3) and 307(1) — the terrorism and extremism "public call" articles. Th…
Asia-Plus: ВС начал кассацию госпереворот
Asia-Plus article dated 1 April 2025 reporting that Tajikistan's Supreme Court began reviewing the cassation appeal in the "coup case" that day at the Dushanbe SIZO. The article reports the cassation hearing began at 10:00; the Supreme Court press centre confirmed all convicted defendants and their lawyers were present, while relatives were not allowed in th…
Diplomat: TJ criminalizes electricity fraud enforcement
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CRS: TJ Overview
Congressional Research Service (CRS) In Focus brief IF10290, updated 28 March 2025, authored by Maria A. Blackwood, Analyst in Asian Policy, provides a country overview of Tajikistan for the U.S. Congress. The document reports that President Emomali Rahmon has held power since 1992, was exempted from term limits in a 2016 referendum, and that his son Rustam…
Forum18: Ismaili Aga Khan commemoration obstructed
Forum 18 (Oslo), dated 19 March 2025 and by-lined Felix Corley and Mushfig Bayram, reports that Tajik authorities obstructed Ismaili Shia commemorations in February following the death of Aga Khan IV (Prince Karim Al-Hussaini), who died in Lisbon on 4 February at the age of 88. The report states that on 5 February hundreds of Ismailis gathered at the Ismaili…
Wikipedia: Corruption in Tajikistan
The English-language Wikipedia article "Corruption in Tajikistan" summarises reporting that corruption is widespread across all spheres of Tajik society. The article states that, according to a 2015 Diplomat article and Freedom House in 2016, corruption pervades every aspect of Tajik culture — from students paying bribes for grades, bribes for the release of…
Asia-Plus: Итоги 2024 года деятельность Азия-Плюс
Asia-Plus article (Russian, published 11 March 2025, 11:00), titled "A year of challenges and victories: what Asia-Plus achieved in 2024", is a self-review by the Asia-Plus media group published to mark the Day of the Tajik Press. The article reports the organisation's own audience and operational figures for 2024. Social-media subscribers: opened the year a…
Asia Plus: TJ leads in remittance share of economy
The Asia Plus article dated 11 March 2025, citing the World Bank report "The Journey Ahead: Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia," reports that in 2024 remittances from Tajik labour migrants accounted for 45 percent of Tajikistan's GDP—the highest share in the world in relative terms. The report states that more than 80 percent of labou…
FDDCA: Long Arms of Dushanbe decade after Kuvvatov
The report, published 5 March 2025 by the Foundation for the Defence of Democracy in Central Asia (FDDCA) and authored by senior lawyer Jamshed Yorov, marks the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvvatov in Istanbul and documents what it calls a decade of transnational repression by the Tajik regime. According to the re…
Asia-Plus: RSF призывает освободить Хакимову
Asia-Plus article dated 28 February 2025 reporting that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Tajikistan's government to release journalist Рухшона Хакимова (Rukhshona Khakimova), who was sentenced to 8 years for state treason. The article reports that per RSF, Khakimova was arrested on 16 July 2024 near her home in Dushanbe without an arrest warrant and…
Радио Озоди / Азия-Плюс: блогер из Таджикистана освобождён спустя год в России
The article, published by Азия-Плюс (Asia-Plus) on 26 February 2025, citing Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi), reports on the release of Салмон Раджабзода (Salmon Rajabzoda), a blogger from Tajikistan known online as "Джумабой" (Jumaboy), who held both Tajik and Russian citizenship. Article reports he was released from detention in Russia on 20 February 2025 after m…
Asia-Plus: Все осуждённые обжаловали приговор госпереворот
Asia-Plus article dated 20 February 2025 reporting that all convicted defendants in the "coup case" sentenced on 5 February to long prison terms filed cassation appeals against the Supreme Court's verdict. The article reports that, per the Supreme Court, lawyers of the convicted political figures submitted the cassation appeal after the verdict's announcemen…
Asia-Plus: ВС РТ официально разъяснил детали госпереворота
Asia-Plus article dated 14 February 2025 reporting that Tajikistan's Supreme Court officially explained some details of the "coup case" for the first time. The article reports that Шавкат Лутфуллозода (Shavkat Lutfullozoda), first deputy chair of the Supreme Court and the judge in the case, stated at a 13 February press conference that the case materials con…
Asia-Plus: TJ в индексе коррупции 2024
Asia-Plus article (Russian, published 12 February 2025, 06:15) reports on Tajikistan's results in the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (Индекс восприятия коррупции / ИВК) released by Transparency International. The article reports the CPI covers 180 countries and rates each on a 0–100 scale (0 = high corruption, 100 = very low), with countries scoring below…
Asia-Plus: Tajikistan in 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index — 19 points, 164th place — 12 February 2025
Asia-Plus Russian-language report setting out Tajikistan's score of 19 points and 164th place in Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index. Provides year-over-year comparison, the methodology note and TI's commentary on Tajikistan.…
Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (2025, andoz.tj)
Official Russian-language text of the Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (Налоговый Кодекс Республики Таджикистан), published by the State Tax Committee under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (andoz.tj). The document is dated 11 February 2025, reflecting amendments introduced by Law of the Republic of Tajikistan №2143 of 11 February 2025 (ЗРТ…
Transparency International: Tajikistan country page
The Transparency International country page "Tajikistan" presents the country's latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) results and related governance indicators. The report states that Tajikistan has a score of 19 on the CPI this year, with a change of 0 since last year, meaning it ranks 166 out of 182 countries. According to the page, the CPI scores 182…
Asia-Plus: Суровый приговор Хакимовой суд не учёл младенца
Asia-Plus article dated 6 February 2025 reporting reactions to the 8-year prison sentence handed down by Tajikistan's Supreme Court to journalist Рухшона Хакимова (Rukhshona Khakimova) for "state treason". The article reports the verdict was announced on 5 February in the Dushanbe SIZO behind closed doors alongside the other "coup case" defendants. Khakimova…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court issues verdicts in 'coup plot' case
On 5 February 2025 Asia-Plus reported that the Supreme Court of Tajikistan had handed down verdicts in the high-profile "attempted coup d'état" case. According to the article, the verdict was announced inside Dushanbe's pre-trial detention facility (SIZO), where the whole trial had been held behind closed doors. The article reports that, per multiple sources…
Moscow Times: Суд ТЖ вынес приговоры госперевороте
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Ведомости: ВС ТЖ приговоры по делу госпереворота
Vedomosti article dated 5 February 2025 reporting, citing Asia-Plus, that Tajikistan's Supreme Court issued guilty verdicts in the "attempted coup" case. The article reports the verdict was announced at a pre-trial detention facility (SIZO) in Dushanbe and the process was held behind closed doors. The article reports most defendants received 18 or 27 years i…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court issues verdict in "coup attempt" case — 5 February 2025
Asia-Plus Russian-language report on the Supreme Court of Tajikistan's verdict in the "coup attempt" criminal case, with named defendants and sentences. Documents the state's characterisation of the case, the charges used, and the court's findings.…
HRW: Хакимова журналистке грозит тюрьма
Human Rights Watch Russian-language news release dated 4 February 2025 (with a 5 February 2025 update) reporting on the prosecution of Tajik investigative journalist Рухшона Хакимова (Rukhshona Khakimova). The article reports that on 5 February 2025, Tajikistan's Supreme Court sentenced Khakimova to 8 years of imprisonment after a closed trial on undisclosed…
Diplomat: After secret trial lengthy sentences for former officials
The report states that on 5 February 2025 the Supreme Court of Tajikistan, following a closed-door trial, handed down lengthy prison terms to eight former senior officials and politicians convicted of charges linked to an alleged plot to seize state power. The report states that those sentenced include former Foreign Minister Hamrokhkhon Zarifi, former parli…
ILGA-Europe: TJ bias-motivated violence annual review (2024)
The report states that Russia's anti-LGBTI laws have significantly influenced Tajikistan, with numerous unofficial social-media reports documenting detentions or prosecutions perceived as targeting individuals based on sexuality or gender identity during 2024. It states that in the Sughd region more than ten cases were reported in which law-enforcement offic…
Civicus Monitor: TJ crackdown on dissent erosion civic space
The report states that the CIVICUS Monitor country update on Tajikistan, prepared by the International Partnership for Human Rights, documents severe suppression of fundamental freedoms, with authorities continuing to arrest journalists, activists and opposition figures on vague extremism charges and convict them in secret trials. The report states that Free…
Eurasianet: TJ election mystery why is it happening
The report states that Tajikistan held parliamentary elections that independent observers and analysts described as largely pre-determined and lacking genuine competition, raising questions about the purpose of holding the vote at all. The report states that the ruling People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan, led by President Emomali Rahmon, dominated the pr…
Azattyk: HRW calls on Tajikistan to drop charges against journalist Rukhshona Hakimova, who faces 17 years
Azattyk Asia reports on 30 January 2025 that Human Rights Watch has called on the authorities of Tajikistan to drop charges against journalist Rukhshona Hakimova (Рухшона Хакимова), who is being tried in Dushanbe in a closed-door hearing on a state-treason charge, with the prosecutor requesting 17 years in prison. The article quotes HRW Central Asia research…
HRW: Journalist faces prison undisclosed charges
Human Rights Watch news release dated 28 January 2025 (Berlin) reports that Tajik investigative journalist Ruhshona Khakimova, a member of the National Association of Independent Mass Media of Tajikistan, faces charges in a classified case carrying up to 17 years in prison. The report states charges were issued in July 2024, reportedly linked to a public sur…
Вечёрка: Гособвинитель запросил 20-30 лет госпереворот
The article, published by Dushanbe-based Вечёрка (Vecherka) on 9 January 2025 and citing sources at Азия-Плюс (Asia-Plus) and Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi), reports on prosecution sentencing requests in the so-called "coup case" in Tajikistan. At a court session on 8 January, article reports, the state prosecutor requested prison terms ranging from 20 to 30 year…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court — sentences for 'likes' and reposts may be reviewed
Asia-Plus reported (article dated 7 August 2025) that at a press conference that day, the chair of Tajikistan's Supreme Court, Rustam Mirzozoda (Рустам Мирзозода), stated that current Tajik legislation allows for the review of cases related to "likes" and other digital reactions on social media. According to the article, he said that in most social-media cas…
Diplomat: Coup trial prosecutors seek lengthy sentences
The report states that in January 2025 prosecutors in Tajikistan requested lengthy prison terms for eight former senior officials and politicians tried behind closed doors on charges linked to an alleged plot to seize state power. The report states that the defendants include former Foreign Minister Hamrokhkhon Zarifi, former parliament speaker Akbarshoh Isk…
Amnesty International: TJ 2024-25
Amnesty International annual country report on Tajikistan covering events in 2024, published in 2025. The report states that persecution of dissent continued, with activists, government critics, and independent journalists including those in exile targeted through intimidation and politically motivated prosecution. The document reports that Bilol Kurbonaliye…
Eurasianet: Forced returnee dies custody
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Freedom House: TJ Freedom in the World 2025
The report states that Tajikistan is classified as "Not Free" in the Freedom in the World 2025 country report, with an overall score of 5 out of 100. The report states the authoritarian regime of President Emomali Rahmon, who has ruled since 1992, severely restricts political rights and civil liberties. The report states the political opposition and independ…
HRW World Report: TJ chapter
The report states that in 2024 the Tajik government reinforced its crackdown on dissent, jailing public figures, journalists, and bloggers, and sought deportation or extradition from other countries of people linked to a banned opposition party. The report states there has been no independent investigation or accountability for the deadly government crackdow…
JW.org: Imprisoned JW in Tajikistan
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openDemocracy: Last Ismaili cleric Davlatmirov Pamir
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TJ Tax Code (official English translation)
The report states it is an unofficial English translation of the Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, adopted by Resolution of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan on 3 November 2021 (No. 549) and approved by Resolution of the Majlisi Milli on 17 December 2021 (No. 217). The report states the Tax Code entered into forc…
USCIRF Annual Report: TJ chapter
US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Annual Report 2025, Tajikistan chapter (pp. 38-39). The report recommends Tajikistan be redesignated a Country of Particular Concern. The document reports that in 2024 religious freedom conditions remained extremely poor, with authorities targeting Ismaili Shi'a Muslims and those deviating from state-…
USCIRF: Calls for US consequences on TJ
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USCIRF: Inhumane treatment of religious prisoner
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USCIRF Spotlight: Religious prisoners & state repression TJ
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USDOS Human Rights Report (covers 2024)
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USDOS TIP Report: Tajikistan
USDOS TIP Report — Tajikistan. English-language source on Tajikistan (debt economic), published 2025-01-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classification is inferred…
Grant Thornton: Indirect Tax Tajikistan guide
The tax guide, published by Grant Thornton on 1 January 2025, provides an overview of the indirect tax system and rules for doing business in Tajikistan. According to the guide, Value Added Tax (VAT) is the principal indirect tax, levied on consumer expenditure and collected on business transactions and imports. The guide states the standard VAT rate is 14%,…
Asia-Plus: Seven most high-profile crimes in Tajikistan in 2024
On 26 December 2024 Asia-Plus published a year-in-review feature listing the seven most high-profile crimes in Tajikistan in 2024. 1) Bombing of the car of Salim Sayvalizoda (Салим Сайвализода), head of the NDPT (ruling party) in the Kulyab region, in the village of Tudakafsh in early January; the article reports eight arrests, with two suspects charged unde…
Asia-Plus: "Seven loudest crimes of 2024 in Tajikistan" — context piece — 26 December 2024
Asia-Plus year-end overview of the seven most notable criminal cases and prosecutions in Tajikistan during 2024, with named defendants, charges, and outcomes. Useful as a consolidated reference for the year's case landscape.…
Diplomat: Alleged coup plot and secretive trial TJ
The report states that a closed-door trial opened in November 2024 in Tajikistan against a group of former senior officials and politicians accused of plotting to seize state power. The report states that the defendants include former Foreign Minister Hamrokhkhon Zarifi, former parliament speaker Akbarshoh Iskandarov, former parliamentarian Saidjafar Usmonzo…
RFERL: TJ secret trial plot to seize power or fearful government
The report states that a closed-door trial of eight former Tajik officials and politicians began on 14 November 2024 in a Dushanbe detention center, with no announcement by authorities and family members, media and the public barred from proceedings. The report states that Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon claimed the defendants had joined banned opposition pa…
HRW: Ergashev deported from Germany jailed
Human Rights Watch news release dated 20 November 2024, issued jointly with Freedom for Eurasia, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and Abschiebungsreporting NRW. The report states that Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition activist deported from Germany on 6 November 2024 after being refused asylum, was provisionally detained for two months by a Dushanbe city co…
RFERL: 8 TJ politicians on trial for plotting to seize power
The report states that on 14 November 2024 RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported the opening of a closed-door trial of eight former top officials, politicians and public figures in Tajikistan on charges of plotting to forcibly seize power, calling for mass disorder, and inciting hatred. According to the report, proceedings began in a pretrial detention centre in D…
IMF: TJ Fiscal Risk Management and SOE transparency
The document is a High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 8 November 2024 under the title "Republic Of Tajikistan: Fiscal Risk Management and Transparency of State-Owned Enterprises." The report is catalogued as High Level Summary Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/038, Stock No. HLSEA2024038, ISBN…
Asia Plus: New individuals in coup attempt case
The report states that on 1 November 2024, Radio Ozodi (the Tajik Service of Radio Liberty) reported that two additional individuals had been detained in connection with Tajikistan's "coup attempt" case, citing an anonymous source close to the investigation. The report states that law enforcement agencies did not officially confirm the arrests. The report st…
Times of Central Asia: More high profile detentions in Tajikistan's alleged coup case
The report, published by The Times of Central Asia on 4 November 2024, states that two more people have been detained in Tajikistan as part of an alleged coup attempt case involving prominent figures, citing an anonymous source quoted by Radio Ozodi. According to the report, the detainees include former GKNB (State Committee on National Security) officers Nu…
FPRI: Countering Great Jihad in CA
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OECD: Baseline Report 5th Round Anti-Corruption TJ
The report states it is the Baseline Report of the Fifth Round of Monitoring of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Tajikistan under the Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan (IAP), a sub-regional peer-review programme of the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN). The report states the monitoring was agreed at the ACN Plenary on 18 Sep…
HRW: Tajik activist in Germany at risk of deportation
Human Rights Watch dispatch by Syinat Sultanalieva, researcher in the Europe and Central Asia Division, dated 31 October 2024, with an update added following events on 6-7 November. The report states that on 28 October 2024 an administrative court in Kleve, Germany, near the Dutch border, ordered the deportation of Dilmurod Ergashev, a 40-year-old Tajik oppo…
Настоящее Время: Группа 24 приговоры Зафар 30 лет Шарифов 20 лет
Nastoyashchee Vremya (Current Time) article dated 18 October 2024 reporting on the closed-court sentencing of opposition movement "Group 24" leader Сухроб Зафар (Sukhrob Zafar) to 30 years and his associate Насимджон Шарифов (Nasimjon Sharifov) to 20 years of imprisonment. The article reports that authorities did not comment on the case and that Group 24 rep…
Current Time: Group 24 — Zafar 30 years, Sharifov 20 years — 2024 sentences
Current Time Russian-language report on the 2024 in-absentia sentences in Tajikistan against Group 24 figures — Sukhrob Zafar (30 years) and Nasimjon Sharifov (20 years). Documents charge structure, defence comment and international reaction.…
LoC Legal Monitor: Hijab ban law
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The Diplomat: 30-year sentence for Group 24 leader Sharifov (after forced disappearance)
This article from The Diplomat, titled "30-Year Sentence for Group 24 Leader in Tajikistan After Forced Disappearance," was published in October 2024 at thediplomat.com/2024/10/30-year-sentence-for-group-24-leader-in-tajikistan-after-forced-disappearance/ and appears in the Politics section of the country-of-origin library. The archived PDF held in the colle…
Asia-Plus: Призыв в TJ завтра отвечаем на важные вопросы
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 2 September 2025. The article is an FAQ on Tajikistan's autumn 2025 conscription campaign (1 October – 30 November). It reports answers given by Dilrabo Samadova (Дилрабо Самадова), executive director of the NGO "Office of Civil Freedoms" (Офис гражданских свобод), on common questions about military conscription. The article repo…
Current Time: extrajudicial killings and torture of Pamiris — Amnesty summary
Current Time Russian-language summary of Amnesty International's 2023 findings on extrajudicial killings, torture, and unjust convictions of Pamiri representatives in Tajikistan. Sets out named cases, allegations against security-service actors, and the pattern of state conduct.…
EAdaily: Россия и Таджикистан усилят борьбу с коррупцией
EADaily news report (Russian, published 20 September 2024, 10:39) reports that Russia and Tajikistan signed a new agreement on cooperation in anti-corruption, citing Sputnik Tajikistan as the primary source of the account. The article reports the document was signed by Igor Krasnov (Игорь Краснов), Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Sulaymon S…
EADaily: Russia and Tajikistan to strengthen anti-corruption cooperation
EADaily Russian-language report on bilateral cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan on anti-corruption initiatives. Documents the official framing of the intergovernmental relationship in this domain.…
Tengrinews: arrest of Usmonzoda — charges of "violent seizure of power"
Tengrinews (Kazakh outlet) Russian-language report on the September 2024 arrest of former Tajik parliamentary speaker Usmonzoda on charges of attempted "violent seizure of power". Documents charge basis and the state's characterisation. Named-case primary source.…
Настоящее Время: Молодёжь TJ уезжает в миграцию не служит 40 смертей 2023
Report by Current Time / Migrant Media (Настоящее Время) dated 13 September 2024, on young Tajik men increasingly leaving for labour migration to Russia to avoid the conscription season. The article reports that every autumn after the presidential decree on the autumn draft is issued, the number of Tajik men over 18 departing for Russia rises sharply; the de…
Amnesty: TJ Pamiri minority systemic discrimination overlooked crisis
The report states that Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), home to several ethnic groups mostly practising the Shia Ismaili branch of Islam. It states that Pamiris are denied official recognition as a minority, are reg…
Настоящее Время: Extrajudicial killings, torture and ban on identity — key points from the Amnesty International report on repression of Pamiris in Tajikistan
Current Time (Настоящее Время / Nastoyashchee Vremya) article published 11 September 2024 summarising an Amnesty International report on Tajikistan's crackdown on Pamiris in GBAO. Covers named killings, torture testimony, court sentences and restrictions on Pamiri language, religion and culture.…
Asia-Plus: 26-year sentence for attack on Mufti
Asia-Plus Russian-language report on the sentencing of a defendant to 26 years' imprisonment for attack on the Mufti of Tajikistan. Documents the charge basis, the court's findings and state framing.…
Carnegie Politika: Alleged coup plot in Tajikistan linked to pre-transition jitters
The report states that this Carnegie Politika analysis by Galiya Ibragimova, published on 20 August 2024, examines a spate of arrests in Tajikistan during summer 2024 in which prominent politicians and public figures were accused of conspiring to carry out a coup. According to the report, the criminal case is classified and available details are scarce, and…
IPHR: Campaign against foreign clothing
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) statement dated 19 August 2024 documenting Tajikistan's legal and administrative campaign against "foreign clothing." The document reports that amendments to the 2007 Law on the Regulation of Traditions and Rites, adopted on 8 May 2024 and signed by the president on 20 June 2024, prohibit importing, selling a…
Sputnik Tajikistan: "Political clothing" — why they don't understand Tajikistan
Sputnik Tajikistan (Sputnik Тоҷикистон), dated 15 August 2024, reports that the Tajik Foreign Ministry gathered the diplomatic corps and domestic and foreign media in Dushanbe to explain the essence of state religious policies. The article states that Tajikistan has been criticised by Western human-rights organisations, media, and some extremist clerics in A…
Tajik Foreign Ministry briefs diplomats on 'alien clothing' law: framing the 2024 dress restrictions as counter-extremism
On 15 August 2024, the Sputnik Tajikistan service published an analytical article in Tajik, reporting that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan had convened diplomatic and media representatives to explain the state's religious-policy measures — in particular the recently-amended Law on the Regulation of Traditions and Ceremonies in the Republic of T…
RFERL: 27 Yazgulom arrested on Ansarullah charges GBAO
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Tajik Service, dated 8 August 2024. The article reports that Tajikistan's First Deputy Interior Minister Abdurahmon Alamshozoda confirmed to journalists in Dushanbe on 8 August that 27 residents of the Yazgulom community in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) had been arrested on suspicion of membership in t…
Asia Plus: Property of detained politicians seized
The report states that on 31 July 2024 Asia Plus, citing Radio Liberty's Tajik Service (Radio Ozodi) reporting of 30 July, published an account of Tajik authorities seizing the property and freezing the bank accounts of a group of recently detained prominent political figures and their close relatives. According to the report, the individuals affected includ…
Meduza: Alien clothing hijab ban context
Meduza / The Beet feature by researcher Niginakhon Saida and freelance journalist Sher Khashimov, published 29 July 2024, examining the context and consequences of Tajikistan's ban on "alien clothing." The article reports that on 19 June 2024 Tajikistan's government passed a law banning "the import, sale, promotion, and use of clothing alien to the national…
RFE/RL: Tajikistan silences Hakimov — one of last voices of dissent (SDPT)
The report, published by RFE/RL's Tajik Service on 24 July 2024, states that Tajik authorities detained Shokirjon Hakimov, deputy head of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), on 12 July 2024. According to the report, officials did not publicly announce or comment on the arrest, and Hakimov's relatives have avoided speaking to media, raising fear…
VC.ru: Налоговая система Таджикистана 2024
VC.ru article (Russian, published 20 July 2024 by author "Relocateme") is a long-form reference piece on the tax system of Tajikistan as of 2024. The article reports that the main taxes payable by companies in Tajikistan include corporate profit tax, simplified tax, VAT, social tax, excise tax, land tax, property tax, subsoil user taxes, and sales tax on cot…
Bomdod: 7,000 Tajik nationals on the Russian Federation federal wanted list
Bomdod Russian-language report citing Russian Interior Ministry data that 7,000 Tajik nationals are currently on the Russian federal wanted list. Documents the basis of the listings (including "extremism" and "terrorism" articles) and the Russia–Tajikistan extradition practice that has returned a material number of the named individuals to Tajikistan.…
Asia-Plus (13 July 2024): Tajikistan plans to criminalise domestic violence ('Saltanat Law' echo)
Asia-Plus, in a 13 July 2024 article, reports on the Central Asian Alliance to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence conference in Almaty on 27–28 June 2024 and on Tajikistan's plans to adopt a "Saltanat Law" criminalising domestic violence. The article reports Sabokhat Rustam (Сабохат Рустам), head of the information department of Tajikistan's government Committe…
Fergana: Tajik women pressured into "correct" hijab — enforcement pattern
Fergana news agency report in Russian documenting the pressure on Tajik women, including from state officials and local authorities, to wear only "correct" forms of national hijab — and the documented incidents of women being told by officials that foreign-style hijabs are not acceptable. Fergana is an independent Central Asia news outlet based outside Tajik…
Коммерсант: Гражданская война в Таджикистане — хроника
The article, a brief photo-gallery introduction published by Russian newspaper Коммерсантъ (Kommersant) on 27 June 2024, reports on the chronology of the Tajik Civil War of 1992–1997. The article states that on 27 June 1997, in Moscow, the Tajik authorities and the United Tajik Opposition signed a peace agreement ending the civil war. Article reports that th…
USDOS IRF Report (covers 2023)
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Vedomosti: Tajikistan bans wearing of 'alien clothing'
On 25 June 2024 the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, under the byline of Nurlan Gasymov, reported that Tajikistan's new law "On the Regulation of Traditions" had come into force on 22 June 2024, its text published in the government newspaper "Jumhuriyat". According to the article, the law imposes large fines for violations of traditional rites and celebrations.…
Vedomosti: Tajikistan bans wearing of "alien clothing" — legal analysis — 25 June 2024
Vedomosti (Russian business daily) legal analysis of the 2024 Tajik "alien clothing" law. The article sets out the amended text of the Law on the Regulation of Traditions and Ceremonies, the administrative-fine schedule, and the scope of items newly prohibited (headscarves of non-national cut, long black abayas, ripped jeans, very short or revealing clothing…
Kommersant: Tajikistan's president signs law banning the hijab
On 20 June 2024 the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon (Эмомали Рахмон), had signed 35 laws, among them a law "On the Regulation of Celebrations and Ceremonies" which, according to the article, bans the wearing of "alien clothing" ("чуждая одежда") in the country. The article states that Rahmon also signed…
Kommersant: President Rahmon signs law banning "alien clothing" — June 2024
Kommersant (Russian business daily) report on the signing by President Emomali Rahmon of the amendments to the Law on the Regulation of Traditions and Ceremonies banning the import, sale and wearing of "alien clothing" in Tajikistan. The article provides the Russian-legal perspective on the law and sets out the new administrative fine structure (approximatel…
StanRadar (17 June 2024): What punishments apply to domestic violence in Central Asia?
StanRadar, in a 17 June 2024 article republishing material sourced from Asia-Plus (asiaplustj.info), reports a five-country comparison of domestic-violence legislation and enforcement in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The article reports that Kyrgyzstan updated its anti-DV law in 2017 (described as among the mo…
Asia-Plus: Tajikistan's mufti backs ban on 'alien clothing'
On 7 June 2024 Asia-Plus reported that Saidmukarram Abdukodirzoda (Саидмукаррам Абдукодирзода / Абдуқодирзода), chairman of the Council of Ulema of Tajikistan, had supported the draft law banning "alien clothing" and stated that national clothing must also conform to Islamic norms. According to the article, he explained these norms on the air of TV "Tajikist…
Asia-Plus: Mufti of Tajikistan endorses ban on "alien clothing", calls for national dress consistent with Islamic norms — 7 June 2024
Asia-Plus report documenting the Mufti of Tajikistan's public endorsement of the 2024 amendment banning "alien clothing". The Mufti's statement frames the ban as consistent with Islamic norms, directs Muslims to wear national dress, and contextualises the state position by reference to religious authority. Primary-source record of the state–religious-establi…
Jamestown: Terrorism TJ & CA post-Crocus
Jamestown Foundation brief by Jacob Zenn, dated 5 June 2024, analysing the aftermath of the 22 March 2024 Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow for Tajikistan and Central Asia. The document states that Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed credit for the massacre of dozens of spectators and that the four main suspected attackers were from Tajikistan,…
VC.ru: tax system of Tajikistan 2024 — detailed analysis
VC.ru Russian-language detailed analysis of the Tajik tax regime as of 2024, including rates, compliance obligations, typical informal practices, and the interface between the tax inspectorate and small business. Useful as a detailed Russian-language reference where enforcement practice and tax code structure matter.…
ECOM: Отчёт по нарушению прав ЛГБТ в Таджикистане
The article reports that the Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM / ЕКОМ) published a report dated 25 May 2024 on human-rights violations against LGBT people in Tajikistan during 2022. The article reports that ECOM monitors registered 22 cases of violations of LGBT people's rights in Tajikistan in 2022, with violations of t…
Настоящее Время: Hijab banned? Tajikistan's parliament prohibits wearing of "clothing contrary to national culture"
Current Time (Настоящее Время) article by Akram Abdukakhor (Акрам Абдукаххор) dated 24 May 2024 on amendments adopted by the Tajik parliament to the law "On the Regulation of Traditions, Celebrations and Rites" banning clothing deemed contrary to national culture.…
Вазорати мудофиа: Нақшаи даъват 100% иҷро
Tajik-language press release by the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Tajikistan (mort.tj), dated 23 May 2024. The press release reports that on 22 May 2024 the spring conscription plan for the Armed Forces of Tajikistan was fulfilled 100% across all regions, cities and districts of the country ahead of schedule. The release reports the sequence of 100%…
Wikipedia: Rahmatullo Zoirov
The report states that Rahmatullo Zoirov (Tajik: Раҳматилло Зойиров), born 16 March 1957 in Bogʻiston, Boʻstonliq District, Tashkent Region of the Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan), was a Tajik politician who served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan. According to the report, he graduated from the Ukrainian Law Academy in 1983, held the academ…
Fergana: Tajik women face large fine for "improper" hijab wearing
Fergana (Фергана), dated 17 May 2024, reports, citing the outlet Bomdod (Бомдод), that in Tajikistan special groups of monitors have appeared at entrances to markets, shopping centres, polyclinics and other institutions to ensure women wear the hijab without covering the face, neck or hair. The article states that if a woman wears a religious headscarf "impr…
HRW: No justice for GBAO crackdown (2yr)
Human Rights Watch dispatch by Syinat Sultanalieva, Researcher, Europe and Central Asia Division, published 15 May 2024, marking two years since the May 2022 crackdown in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The document reports that protests began peacefully on 16 May 2022 in Khorog, the GBAO capital, with residents demanding an end to ha…
Sugdnews: Коррупция в Таджикистане обзор
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Sugdnews: corruption in Tajikistan — local Sughd perspective — 8 May 2024
Sugdnews Russian-language commentary on corruption patterns in Tajikistan from a Sughd (northern Tajikistan) local-outlet perspective. Useful as a region-specific corruption-context source.…
Current Time: Tajik parliament votes to ban "clothing contrary to national culture" — 2024
Current Time reports the parliamentary vote in Tajikistan to ban clothing deemed "contrary to national culture" — the bill that became the 2024 amendment. Describes the legislative process, the specific wording of the amendment, and public reaction. Current Time is a US-funded Russian-language outlet; report is useful where the Russian-language procedural ac…
USCIRF Annual Report: TJ chapter
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Annual Report 2024 chapter on Tajikistan (covering events in 2023), recommending Tajikistan be redesignated a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC) under IRFA. The document reports approximately 90 percent of the population is Muslim (majority Hanafi Sunni), around 4 percent are ethnically Pamiri ad…
Diplomat: Before and after Crocus Tajik migrants
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Azattyq Asia (Russian): analysis of the Abduhalil Holikzoda case
Azattyq Asia analytical piece in Russian on the sentencing of Abduhalil Holikzoda. Reconstructs the charges, the role of his book "Events of My Life", allegations against the Ibn Sino clinic, and the broader pattern of Article 189/289 use against named public figures.…
Media Diversity Institute: TJ cracks down on ethnic religious minority
Media Diversity Institute article by Dina Newman, dated 12 March 2024, examines discrimination against the Pamiri minority in Tajikistan. The report states that Pamiris live in a remote mountainous region bordering Afghanistan and China, differ from the Tajik-speaking Sunni majority in that they speak several related languages and follow Ismailism, a branch…
Фергана: В Стамбуле пропал лидер Группы 24 Сухроб Зафар
The article, published by Fergana (fergana.agency) on 12 March 2024, reports that Сухроб Зафар (Sukhrob Zafar), leader of the Tajik opposition political movement "Group 24" banned in Tajikistan, disappeared in Istanbul. Article reports, citing a statement from the organisation's website, that Zafar stopped responding on the morning of 10 March 2024 and his p…
Fergana: Group 24 leader Sukhrob Zafar disappeared in Istanbul
Fergana Russian-language report on the early-March 2024 disappearance in Istanbul of Sukhrob Zafar, leader of banned Group 24. Documents the circumstances of the disappearance, the testimony of family members, and the international response.…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court sentences Abduhalil Holikzoda to 9 years
On 7 March 2024 Asia-Plus reported, citing the information department of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan, that the Supreme Court had sentenced Abduhalil Holikzoda (Абдухалил Холикзода), author of the book "Ҳаводиси рӯзгори ман" ("Events of my life"), to 9 years of imprisonment. According to the article, Holikzoda, an entrepreneur and head of the "Ibn Sino" c…
Asia-Plus: Abduhalil Holikzoda sentenced to 9 years for inciting religious and social discord — 7 March 2024
Asia-Plus reports the sentencing by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan of Abduhalil Holikzoda to 9 years' imprisonment for offences under Articles 189(2) and 289(2) of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan (inciting social and religious discord). Holikzoda is the author of the book "Ҳаводиси рӯзгори ман" ("Events of My Life") and head of the Ibn Sino…
Bomdod: Russia's Interior Ministry places nearly 7,000 Tajik citizens on federal wanted list
Bomdod reports on 7 March 2024 that according to open data on the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) federal wanted-list website, as of early February 2024 there were 99,752 people sought on criminal cases and 41,535 on a separate missing-persons list. The article reports that Mediazona analysed the database and found over 31,000 Russians, over 11,00…
The Diplomat: 2 Tajik opposition activists missing in Turkey (Group 24)
This article from The Diplomat, titled "2 Tajik Opposition Activists Go Missing in Turkey," was published in March 2024 at thediplomat.com/2024/03/2-tajik-opposition-activists-go-missing-in-turkey/ and appears in the Politics section of the country-of-origin library. The archived PDF held in the collection contains only a Cloudflare security-verification cha…
Diplomat: Beaten threatened outed ordeals of LGBTQ people TJ
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Forum18: HR defenders threatened (Ismaili GBAO)
Forum 18 News Service article by Mushfig Bayram, dated 23 February 2024, reporting that Tajikistan has opened criminal cases against exiled human rights defenders Anora Sarkorova and her husband Rustamjon Joniyev, and placed them on Russia's Federal Wanted List. The document states both have covered the regime's violations against Ismaili Muslims in Mountain…
Asia-Plus: Самоубийства в TJ за 2023 год анализ
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 19 February 2024. The article reports statistics on suicides and suicide attempts in Tajikistan for 2023. According to figures provided to Asia-Plus by the Committee on Women's and Family Affairs under the government (Комитет по делам женщин и семьи при правительстве), based on data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (МВД), 33…
Forum18: Russia Wanted List (TJ names)
Forum 18 News Service article by Felix Corley and Victoria Arnold, dated 16 February 2024, documenting that Russia's Interior Ministry Federal Wanted List included at least 43 individuals facing criminal charges for exercising freedom of religion or belief. The document reports the list includes 3 opponents of Russia's war against Ukraine on religious ground…
Зиндониён: Не позволим бросить Саркорову в тюрьму как Мамадшоеву
The article, published by Зиндониён (Zindoniyon) on 7 February 2024, reproduces an open appeal dated 6 February 2024 from the Civil Committee for the Rescue of Hostages and Political Prisoners in Tajikistan (CCRHPP) addressed to the United Nations, European Union, Human Rights Watch, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Norwegian Helsinki Committee and dipl…
IPHR: Права для всех ЛГБТИК в Таджикистане
The article reports that International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR / Международное партнёрство по правам человека — МППЧ) published a report dated February 2024 titled "Rights for all? LGBTIQ in Tajikistan are systematically deprived of human rights". The article reports that in 2022 and 2023 police conducted a series of raids against LGBTIQ people in…
ILGA-Europe: Tajikistan annual review (2023)
The report states that rising living costs, including food, medication and transport, worsened conditions for LGBT people in Tajikistan during 2023, with flight-ticket costs making it harder for many to leave the country. It states that stigma and discrimination in society and family, combined with extortion and blackmail by law enforcement agencies, have pu…
IPHR: Rights for All LGBTIQ TJ systematically denied human rights
The report states that the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people continue to be routinely violated in Tajikistan, with police conducting a series of raids against community members in several cities during 2022 and 2023. It states that although Tajikistan decriminalised consensual same-sex relations between adult men in 1…
HRW: Shamsiddin jailed after deportation from Germany
Human Rights Watch commentary by Hugh Williamson, Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division, published 30 January 2024 (originally in the German daily taz). The document reports that Abdullohi Shamsiddin, 33, a political activist connected to the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), was deported from Germany to Tajikistan on 18 January 2023…
Диалог: Азизходжаев 2.5 года тюрьмы
Диалог — Азизходжаев 2.5 года тюрьмы. Russian-language primary source on Tajikistan (corruption), published 2024-01-01. Catalogued for discoverability; a certified English translation of the full original can be commissioned on request (see the translation request block below).…
ACCA Media: Коррупция в Таджикистане
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ADC Memorial: Persecution of activists in the Pamirs
Dated 2 August 2022, this ADC Memorial (Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial) report details the persecution of activists in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The report states the situation has been tense since 25 November 2021, when local resident Gulbiddin Ziyobekov was killed during a security operation in the village of Tavdem, Rosh…
ADC Memorial (Russian): detailed list of persecuted Pamiri activists — persecutions, pressure, abductions, sentences
ADC Memorial (Anti-Discrimination Centre) Russian-language compilation — a detailed register of persecuted Pamiri activists, with case facts, dates of arrest, sentences, reports of pressure and abductions, and references to specific named defendants including Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva (21-year sentence) and Manuchehr Kholiknazarov (16-year sentence). One of th…
Asia-Plus: 14 ришваситонӣ дар донишгоҳҳо соли 2025
The article, dated 18 February 2026, reports that in 2025 the Tajik Anti-Corruption Agency uncovered 14 cases of bribe-taking linked to admissions into higher education institutions. At a press conference on 13 February, deputy head of the Anti-Corruption Agency Firuz Kamolzoda stated that all 14 detected instances of bribery were connected to facilitating a…
Asia-Plus weekly roundup: 26 years for attack on mufti
Asia-Plus published a weekly news roundup (article dated 15 February 2025) summarising official press conferences on the outcomes of 2024. Among many items, the article reports on the knife attack on Saidmukarram Abdulkodirzoda (Саидмукаррам Абдулкодирзода), head of Tajikistan's Council of Ulema. According to the article, three people were convicted in conne…
Asia-Plus: Дуздии пули хуроку либоси сарбозон 9 зиндонӣ 60 ҷарима
The article, dated 9 August 2025, reports that in a case concerning the theft of millions of somoni in funds for soldiers' food and clothing from the Ministry of Defence budget, 9 persons were sentenced to prison terms and more than 60 others were fined. At a 7 August press briefing, the Supreme Court announced that criminal cases had been opened against 71…
CAA Network: Kabiri — 'I do not regret the path of tolerance'
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CABAR Longreads: Армия Таджикистана дедовщина
CABAR Longreads (Russian edition). The article is a longread titled "Hazing in Tajikistan: Radical reforms are needed" (Дедовщина в Таджикистане: нужны радикальные реформы), published by CABAR.asia (Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting). The article reports that human rights defenders in Tajikistan say the Tajik army needs radical reforms, otherwise…
bne IntelliNews: Not a single acquittal in 2 years TJ courts
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Daru Churchill: Prevention of debt bondage with microfinance
The paper by Patrick Daru and Craig Churchill of the International Labour Organization Social Finance Programme, titled "The Prevention of Debt Bondage with Microfinance and Related Services: Preliminary Lessons," reports on the first 18 months of the Dutch-funded South Asian Project for the Prevention of Debt Bondage, which began piloting microfinance-based…
Freedom House: Nations in Transit TJ
Freedom House's Nations in Transit 2024 country report on Tajikistan, authored by Ruslan Norov and covering events in 2023, classifies the country as a "Consolidated Authoritarian Regime" with a democracy score of 1.00/7.00. The report states that Emomali Rahmon, in power since 1992, continued to concentrate power, and that his 36-year-old son Rustam Emomali…
Freedom House: Tajikistan Freedom in the World 2024
The report, published by Freedom House as part of the Freedom in the World 2024 series, assigns Tajikistan a status of "Not Free" with an aggregate score of 5 out of 100. The document states that Tajikistan has been led since 1992 by President Emomali Rahmon, whose administration it describes as authoritarian, noting that wealth and authority are concentrate…
HRW World Report: TJ chapter
Human Rights Watch's World Report 2024 chapter on Tajikistan (events of 2023), published in January 2024, documents continued repression of independent voices, NGO closures, detentions of bloggers, and restrictions on religious organisations. The chapter reports that Tajik authorities announced closure of 239 NGOs in the first half of 2023, following over 50…
IFEX: Dissent targeted home and exile
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USCIRF FoRB DB: Rustamjon Norov
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USDOS Fiscal Transparency Report: Tajikistan
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USDOS Tajikistan HR Report (judiciary + corruption sections): USDOS Tajikistan HR Report (judiciary + corruption sections)
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USDOS TIP Report: Tajikistan
USDOS TIP Report — Tajikistan. English-language source on Tajikistan (debt economic), published 2024-01-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classification is inferred…
ADB: Financial Inclusion Regulation Tajikistan Literacy
The Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper No. 847 (June 2018) by Roman Mogilevskii and Shokhboz Asadov, titled "Financial Inclusion, Regulation, Financial Literacy, and Financial Education in Tajikistan," provides an analysis of financial inclusion, literacy and education issues in the Republic of Tajikistan. The paper states that Tajikistan has a t…
ADB: Leveraging SME Finance Value Chains Tajikistan
The Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper No. 1020 (October 2019) by Shuhrat Mirzoev and Ravshan Sobirzoda, titled "Leveraging SME Finance through Value Chains in Tajikistan," analyses the outlook for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Tajikistan. The paper states that despite 27 years of robust economic growth, Tajikistan remains the poor…
ADB: Microfinance Institutions Tajikistan
The report states that Tajikistan's microfinance sector emerged in 1999–2000s through UNDP and international NGO programmes (Mercy Corps, ACDI/VOCA, CARE, ACTED), which later spun off into IMON, Arvand (formerly Microinvest), Humo, and Oxus, alongside FINCA. In 2004, Parliament enacted the first microfinance law creating three types of institutions — micro l…
AKDN: Microfinance in Tajikistan
The report states that the Aga Khan Development Network established the First Microfinance Bank Tajikistan (FMFB-T) in 2003 as the country's first fully licensed commercial bank with microfinance as its principal focus. The report states that FMFB-T currently serves around 20,880 clients with a loan portfolio exceeding US$35 million and nearly 165,000 deposi…
Asia Plus: 13700 alimony defaulters exit banned TJ
The report states that in 2025 authorities in Tajikistan initiated criminal proceedings against 270 individuals, primarily fathers, for evading child support payments. The report states that under Tajikistan's legislation, non-payment of alimony can result in penalties ranging from corrective labour to up to three years in prison. Alijon Aminzoda, head of th…
Asia Plus: Authorities name largest tax debtors budget revenues arrears
The report states that Tajikistan's Tax Committee published its latest list of top tax debtors on 8 August 2025, headed by Open Joint Stock Company "Electricity Distribution Networks" with an outstanding debt of 144 million somoni (about US$13.2 million). Tax Committee chairman Nusratullo Davlatzoda named the next three largest debtors as Khujand City Sanita…
Asia Plus: TJ tax authorities identify major debtors
The report states that as of 1 June 2025, total tax arrears in Tajikistan amounted to 975.8 million somoni (approximately US$102 million), according to the Tax Committee under the Government of Tajikistan. This marks an increase of 235.6 million somoni in tax arrears compared with the beginning of the year. The report states that the Tax Committee highlighte…
Britannica: Tajikistan Ethnic Groups Languages Religion
Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on the people of Tajikistan (Edward Allworth and Britannica editors) provides an overview of ethnic groups, languages, religion and related social structures. The report states that more than four-fifths of the population is ethnically Tajik, a proportion that rose with the emigration of non-Tajiks during the civil war, and tha…
CABAR: JW in Tajikistan position unchanged
CABAR.asia (Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, produced under an IWPR project) reports that persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tajikistan continues, with followers who refuse military service on religious grounds being imprisoned. The report states that in early April, Radio Ozodi reported a military court in Dushanbe sentenced Jovidon Bobojon…
Coface: TJ Country Risk Economic Analysis
The report captured here is the Coface country risk file for Tajikistan, hosted on the business risk dashboard of www.coface.com. The PDF file consists of a CloudFront 403 error page indicating that the request could not be satisfied, and therefore does not contain the substantive economic risk assessment text from Coface. The report states that the document…
Corruption Risk Forecast: Tajikistan
The report states it is the Corruption Risk Forecast country profile for Tajikistan, published by CorruptionRisk.org. The report states Tajikistan has a population of 10.59 million, is classified as Lower Middle Income with GNI per capita of 1,341 USD, urban population of 29%, life expectancy of 72 years, and Human Development Index of 0.69. The report state…
Equaldex: LGBT rights in Tajikistan
The report states that Tajikistan has an Equality Index of 38 out of 100 and ranks #97 on the global Equality Rank for LGBT rights. It states that homosexual activity is legal in Tajikistan, with male same-sex relations decriminalised on 1 September 1998 (female same-sex relations were legal throughout) and that same-sex marriage has been banned since 1 Janu…
Eurasianet: Activist deported by Germany 7 years prison
The report states that a Tajik opposition activist who had been deported from Germany to Tajikistan was subsequently sentenced by a Tajik court to seven years in prison. The report states that the individual was associated with opposition structures critical of the government of President Emomali Rahmon, and that his return to Tajikistan occurred despite war…
Eurasianet: Breaking TJ banks north falters ruling family
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Eurasianet: Business rival of presidents son-in-law neutralized
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Eurasianet: Faroz company close to presidential family liquidation
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Eurasianet: Pamiri activists imprisoned en masse
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Eurasianet: TJ using force to maintain standing army
Eurasianet — TJ using force to maintain standing army. English-language source on Tajikistan (army), published 2024-01-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classificati…
Fergana EN: Most defendants in TJ coup case convicted of treason
The report states that the First Deputy Chairman of Tajikistan's Supreme Court, Shavkat Lutfullozoda, told a Dushanbe press conference that most defendants in the alleged coup case were convicted of treason (Part 1, Article 305) and violent seizure of power (Part 1, Article 306). According to the report, former Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi was sentenced…
Freedom Now: Zayd Saidov case
The report states that Zayd Saidov, a Tajik businessman and former Minister of Industry (2003-2007), was arrested on 19 May 2013 and is serving a 29-year sentence on charges that, according to the report, were designed to disrupt his creation of an opposition party. The report notes that in April 2013 Saidov announced the formation of the New Tajikistan Part…
ILGA World Database: LGBTI rights in Tajikistan
The archived PDF is largely obscured by a donation overlay from the ILGA World Database, but visible content indicates that the report presents a structured country-profile of LGBTI legal frameworks in Tajikistan. The report states that consensual same-sex sexual acts are legal in Tajikistan, with the status recorded as "Legal since 1998." It states that the…
IWPR: Crackdown continues on Tajik mosques
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IWPR: Economic crisis cited in Tajik suicide cases
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IWPR: Tajik Opposition Figure 26 years
The report, published by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) at iwpr.net/global-voices/tajik-opposition-figure-gets-26-years, concerns the 26-year prison sentence handed down to Tajik opposition politician Zayd Saidov. Note: the PDF supplied in the library consists only of a Cloudflare security verification page, so the full text of the IWPR artic…
IWPR: Uzbeks face obstacles in increasingly Tajik state
IWPR — Uzbeks face obstacles in increasingly Tajik state. English-language source on Tajikistan (minorities). The archived PDF captured only a Cloudflare verification page and no article text, so a factual summary is not available from the saved copy; readers can access the original article directly at the publisher URL (iwpr.net). Topic classification is in…
Khujamkulov SSRN: Shadow Economy impact on TJ Tax Revenue
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Minority Rights Group: Situation of Minorities in Tajikistan report
Minority Rights Group — Situation of Minorities in Tajikistan report. English-language source on Tajikistan (minorities). The archived PDF captured only a Cloudflare verification page and no report text, so a factual summary is not available from the saved copy; readers can access the original report directly at the publisher URL (minorityrights.org). Topic…
Minority Rights Group: Tajikistan country overview
Minority Rights Group — Tajikistan country overview. English-language source on Tajikistan (minorities). The archived PDF captured only a Cloudflare verification page and no overview text, so a factual summary is not available from the saved copy; readers can access the original country profile directly at the publisher URL (minorityrights.org). Topic classi…
OCCRP: Death of Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance (IRPT)
The report, part of OCCRP's "Tajikistan: Money by Marriage" investigation, states that in the summer of 2015 President Emomali Rahmon's government used a combination of arrest, intimidation and legal technicalities to dismantle the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), a party the report describes as a moderate, democratically oriented movement wit…
openDemocracy: GBAO Mamadboqirov changed TJ forever
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openDemocracy: Long echo of Tajikistans civil war
openDemocracy — Long echo of Tajikistans civil war. English-language source on Tajikistan (politics), published 2024-01-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classificat…
openDemocracy: Pamiris persecuted home forgotten abroad
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Oslo Freedom Forum: Sharofiddin Gadoev speaker profile
The report is the Oslo Freedom Forum speaker profile for Tajik opposition politician Sharofiddin Gadoev, published ahead of his 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum talk "Inside Tajikistan's State of Fear". The report describes Gadoev as a member of Tajikistan's opposition National Alliance coalition and of Group 24, an opposition political movement that, according to th…
Outright International: Tajikistan country page
The report states that same-sex relations for both men and women have been legal throughout Tajikistan since 1998, that legal gender recognition is possible, and that LGBTI organisations are able to register. It states, however, that the country does not offer any form of non-discrimination protection on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, ge…
Tajreform: Biography of Sharofiddin Gadoev
The report, published on the Reforms and Development of Tajikistan (Tajreform) movement website, is a detailed biography of Tajik opposition politician Sharofiddin Gadoev, born 19 May 1985 in the Farkhor district of Khatlon region. According to the report, Gadoev holds a degree in international law from the National University of Tajikistan and worked as an…
TimesCA: TJ Supreme Court breaks silence on alleged coup case
The report states that on 13 February 2025 Shavkat Lutfullozoda, first deputy chairman of Tajikistan's Supreme Court, publicly commented for the first time on the closed-door prosecution of a group of senior politicians accused of high treason and attempting to seize power by force. According to the report, he said the case materials indicated their actions…
TJ Criminal Code extracts EN (Nottingham CJAD): TJ Criminal Code extracts EN (Nottingham CJAD)
The report states that this is an English-language extract from the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, compiled by the Criminal Justice and Domestic Violence unit at the University of Nottingham (CJAD). The extract covers Section XV, Chapter 34 on "Crimes Against the Peace and Safety of Mankind" along with Articles 15 and 59 on extraterritorial jur…
WB: TJ path to sustainable prosperity
The report states that this is a World Bank Blogs article titled "Tajikistan's Path to Sustainable Prosperity: Building Inclusive Growth at Home", which examines both the opportunities and challenges of turning Tajikistan's rapid growth into sustained, inclusive prosperity. The report states that around 1.3 billion people have been lifted out of extreme pove…
Wikipedia: Dedovshchina
The Wikipedia entry on dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщина, lit. "reign of old-timers") describes the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops, FSB, Border Guards, and the armed forces of other former Soviet republics. The article states that the phe…
Wikipedia: Demographics of Tajikistan
Wikipedia article on the Demographics of Tajikistan summarises population, age, ethnicity, language and religion data. The report states the population was 10,786,734 (2025 est.) with a growth rate of 1.4%, a birth rate of 20.73 per 1,000, a total fertility rate of 3.45, and life expectancy of 71.43 years. It states that until the 20th century people in the…
Wikipedia: Group 24
The report states that Group 24 is a Tajikistan political opposition movement founded in 2012 by businessman Umarali Quvvatov, who had formerly had ties to President Emomali Rahmon's family and established the group to campaign for democratic reforms following the Gorno-Badakhshan clashes. According to the report, the organisation became popular via social m…
Wikipedia: Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
The report states that the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), also known as the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, is a banned Islamist political party and that until its 2015 designation as a terrorist organisation it was the only legal Islamist party in Central Asia. According to the report, the party was founded in 1990 with a founding cong…
Wikipedia: Khatlon Region
Wikipedia article on Khatlon Region, one of the four provinces of Tajikistan and the most populous, situated in the southwest between the Hisor Range and the Panj river, bordering Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The report states Khatlon has an area of 24,700 km² and, according to 2020 data, a population of 3,348,300 (up from 2,677,251 in the 2010 census). It st…
Wikipedia: Lakai
Wikipedia disambiguation page titled "Lakai." The saved PDF captures only the disambiguation entry and does not include the full "Lakai (tribe)" article itself. The report states that "Lakai" may refer to several items: Lakai Limited Footwear (a skate-shoe company based in Torrance, California); Lakai (tribe), described as a tribe of ethnic Uzbeks in Tajikis…
Wikipedia: LGBTQ rights in Tajikistan
The report states that LGBTQ people in Tajikistan face legal challenges and difficulties not experienced by non-LGBTQ citizens, and that although same-sex sexual activity has been legal since May 1998 (when consensual male relations were decriminalised; female relations had never been criminalised), same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protec…
Wikipedia: Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan
The report states that the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT; Tajik: Ҳизби сотсиал-демократии Тоҷикистон) is a centre-left political party registered on 20 December 2002 and led by Rahmatullo Zoirov until his death on 18 May 2024. According to the report, the party is opposed to the authoritarian government led by the People's Democratic Party of T…
Wikipedia: Tajikistani Civil War 1992-1997
The report states that the Tajikistani Civil War was an armed conflict between 5 May 1992 and 27 June 1997, in which regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions rose up against the government of President Rahmon Nabiyev, which the report describes as dominated by elites from Khujand and Kulob. According to the report, the rebel coalition combi…
Wikipedia: Zayd Saidov
The report states that Zayd Sherovich Saidov (born 20 March 1958) is a Tajik businessman and politician who served as Tajikistan's Industry Minister from 2002 to 2007 and later founded the opposition party "New Tajikistan." According to the report, Saidov was a member of the opposition during the 1992-1997 Tajikistani Civil War and took up a ministerial post…
Eurasianet: Уважаемой активистке грозит тюрьма сговор с США
PDF-unreadable. The source PDF at Press-Freedom/RU Eurasianet — Уважаемой активистке грозит тюрьма сговор с США.pdf consists solely of a Cloudflare bot-verification interstitial ("russian.eurasianet.org — Performing security verification", Ray ID 9eedc69bea5790f7) and contains no article text. The underlying Russian Eurasianet URL was not captured at archive…
HSE Anticor: Профиль Таджикистан
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Мемориал: Список политзаключённых по религии 2017
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openDemocracy: 'With wide-shut eyes — the long echo of the civil war' (Tajikistan)
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Ozodi: Ҳукми профессори тоҷик ришвагирӣ
The article, published by Radio Ozodi on 11 August 2025 by correspondent Farzon Muhammadi, reports that the Sughd Regional Court issued a high-profile verdict against the rector and a lecturer of Khujand State University. According to Dilovar Mirzohomidzoda, chairman of the Khujand City Court, the first-instance ruling of 26 June sentenced Professor Ayub Usm…
Pamir Inside: "Who are the Pamiris" — ethnic, linguistic and religious profile
Pamir Inside (Pamiri diaspora outlet) Russian-language background article setting out the ethnic, linguistic and religious identity of the Pamiri peoples, including distinct Pamir languages, Ismaili Shia religious identity, and the history of GBAO (Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast). Useful as background source on Pamiri identity distinct from ethnic Tajik…
Refworld: Таджикистан реалии жизни узбекской общины
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TJ КоАП: Кодекс об административных правонарушениях
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TJ Налоговый Кодекс (полный RU актуальный)
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Wikipedia: Узбеки в Таджикистане
The article is a Russian-language Wikipedia entry titled "Uzbeks in Tajikistan" (Узбеки в Таджикистане; Uzbek: Tojikistondagi oʻzbeklar; Tajik: Ӯзбекҳо дар Тоҷикистон). The article reports that Uzbeks are the largest ethno-linguistic minority of the Republic of Tajikistan and the second-largest ethnic group after Tajiks. The article reports that according to…
Wikipedia (RU): Civil War in Tajikistan 1992–1997
The Russian-language Wikipedia article "Гражданская война в Таджикистане" describes an armed intra-ethnic conflict in Tajikistan between supporters of the central authorities and groupings of the United Tajik Opposition that followed the country's declaration of independence after the collapse of the USSR. The article dates the conflict from 5 May 1992 to 27…
Wikipedia (Russian): Group 24 (banned 2014)
Russian Wikipedia article on Group 24 — founding in 2012 by Umarali Kuvvatov, stated political programme, 2014 "extremist" designation, deaths of leaders (Kuvvatov in Istanbul 2015; Sharifov in Turkey 2024), subsequent prosecutions and international advocacy. Verifiable general-reference resource.…
Wikipedia (Russian): Muhiddin Kabirov — leader of IRPT
Russian Wikipedia biographical article on Muhiddin Kabirov, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT/PIVT) since 2006, in exile since 2015 after the party's ban and "extremist" designation.…
Wikipedia (Russian): Sukhrob Zafar — leader of Group 24
Russian Wikipedia biographical article on Sukhrob Zafar, leader of Group 24 after the 2015 death of Umarali Kuvvatov. Covers his election as leader, the March 2024 disappearance in Istanbul and the 2024 in-absentia sentence.…
Wikipedia (Russian): Civil War in Tajikistan 1992–1997
Russian Wikipedia article on the Tajik Civil War 1992–1997 — chronology, parties, named actors (including the United Tajik Opposition), death toll estimates and the 1997 peace agreement. General-reference resource; verifiable against primary sources cited.…
Wikipedia (RU): Suhrob Zafar — leader of Group 24
The Russian-language Wikipedia article "Сухроб Зафар" covers the Tajik political activist Suhrob Zafar (Сухроб Зафар, real name Suhrob Tabarov / Сухроб Табаров), born 24 November 1978, who leads the opposition movement "Group 24" (Группа 24). The article reports that Zafar assumed leadership of the movement after the assassination of its founder Umarali Kuvv…
Wikipedia: Языки Таджикистана
The article is a Russian-language Wikipedia entry titled "Languages of Tajikistan" (Языки Таджикистана). The article reports that Tajik is the state and official language of Tajikistan and that Russian is recognised by the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan as the language of inter-ethnic communication. The article reports that Tajik — regarded by ma…
Asia-Plus: Story seven — discrimination against women wearing the hijab
On 5 December 2023 Asia-Plus published the seventh instalment in a series on discrimination against women in Tajikistan, focused on women who wear the hijab. The article reports that although the majority of Tajikistan's population is Muslim, women who choose to wear the hijab are subject to what it describes as an unwritten ban on entering certain state ins…
Asia-Plus: "The seventh story — how women in hijabs are discriminated against in Tajikistan" — 5 December 2023
Asia-Plus feature in Russian compiling seven documented accounts of discrimination against hijab-wearing women in Tajikistan, including refusal of services at markets, clinics and public offices, documented interactions with police, and loss of employment. The report pre-dates the 2024 statutory amendment and records the pattern of discrimination as it exist…
TJ Criminal Code full EN (for art. 244 247 292 295 etc): TJ Criminal Code full EN (for art. 244 247 292 295 etc)
The report states that this is the full English-language text of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, originally adopted in 1998 and consolidated with amendments through 13 November 2023 (Law No. 1985), published on the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation portal. The file is annotated in its filename as the reference copy used for Articl…
HRW: Exiled activists' relatives detained over protest
The report states that in a Human Rights Watch news release dated 6 October 2023, the organisation documented the detention by Tajik authorities of relatives of diaspora opposition members who had protested during President Emomali Rakhmon's September 2023 visit to Germany. According to the report, on 28 September activists of the National Alliance of Tajiki…
Amnesty: Arbitrary arrests of Pamiris
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Amnesty International (Russian): "Tajikistan arbitrarily arrests, tortures and unjustly convicts prominent Pamiri minority representatives" — 21 September 2023
Amnesty International Russian-language statement documenting arbitrary arrests, torture and unjust convictions of prominent Pamiri minority representatives in Tajikistan. The statement names individual cases and the pattern of state treatment of Pamiri civil-society, journalist and activist figures following the May 2022 events in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO).…
Mediazona: История Группы 24 не работают законы
Mediazona Central Asia long-form article by Александр Григорянц (Aleksandr Grigoryants) tracing the history of the opposition movement "Group 24" against the backdrop of a renewed campaign in Tajikistan since late 2022 against journalists and opposition figures accused of links to the banned organisation. The article reports that at least eight Tajikistanis…
Mediazona: history of Group 24 in Tajikistan — "laws don't work" — 7 September 2023
Mediazona Russian-language long-read on the history of Group 24 (Гурӯҳи 24) from its founding by Umarali Kuvvatov through its 2014 designation as "extremist" in Tajikistan and subsequent prosecution pattern. Sets out the founding membership, stated objectives and the state's legal basis for the ban.…
Азаттык Азия: "The Kholikzoda case — serious crime or behind-the-scenes struggle in the corridors of power?"
Azattyq Asia / Radio Ozodi analysis by Mumin Akhmadi (Мумин Ахмади) and Mirzonabi Kholikzod (Мирзонаби Холикзод), published 4 September 2023, on the criminal case against Tajik businessman and author Abdukhalil Kholikzoda.…
Azattyq Asia (Russian): civil society in GBAO and Karakalpakstan — comparative analysis
Azattyq Asia (RFE/RL regional Central Asia service) Russian-language comparative report on the state of civil society in GBAO (Tajikistan) and Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan). Covers repression patterns, named civil-society figures, and parallels between the two regions.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): ban on "Pamir Daily News" — GBAO outlet designation
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the designation and banning of "Pamir Daily News", a Pamiri/GBAO-focused diaspora media outlet, by Tajik authorities. Documents the basis for the ban and implications for Pamiri-language reporting.…
TajikPress: Arrest of Abdukhalil Kholikzoda, director of Ibn Sina hospital
TajikPress, dated 12 August 2023, reports that Abdukhalil Kholikzoda (Абдухалил Холиқзода / Абдухалил Холикзода), Tajik entrepreneur and founder-director of the Ibn Sina (Ибни Сино) hospital in Dushanbe, was detained by authorities and held in a pre-trial detention facility in the Firdavsi district of Dushanbe since 7 August 2023. The article states that, ac…
TajikPress (Tajik): arrest of Abduhalil Holikzoda — 12 August 2023
TajikPress Tajik-language contemporaneous report of the August 2023 arrest of Abduhalil Holikzoda. Complements the later Asia-Plus (March 2024) sentencing report by providing the primary Tajik-language record of the arrest itself.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): GBAO family verdicts — whole families imprisoned
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report documenting a pattern of prosecutions in which entire GBAO-origin families have multiple members imprisoned on related charges. Sets out named cases, family relationships and sentence totals.…
Радио Озоди: Tajik authorities ban the online outlet Pamir Daily News
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report dated 19 July 2023 on the Supreme Court of Tajikistan's ruling of 14 June 2023 designating the Pamir Daily News online outlet as extremist and banning its activity in the country.…
CABAR.asia: Расследование коррупция в паспортной службе TJ
CABAR.asia investigative article (Russian) reports on alleged corruption in the Passport-Registration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan (Паспортно-регистрационная служба МВД). The article reports that, under a government decision effective 1 February 2010, the Service issues biometric foreign passports to ordinary citizens for a 10-ye…
NoTortureTJ: Prosecutor General Yusuf Rakhmon on torture
NoTortureTJ (Tajik anti-torture network) Russian-language record of public statements by Prosecutor General Yusuf Rakhmon on the state position regarding torture in Tajikistan. Primary-source official statement relevant to counter-advancing SSHD's position on state protection.…
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission: Buzurgmehr Yorov
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission profile "Buzurgmehr Yorov", hosted on the US Congressional Commission's Defending Freedoms Project Tajikistan page, documents the case of the imprisoned Tajik human rights lawyer. The report states Yorov was detained since 28 September 2015 on charges of fraud, forgery, publicly insulting the Leader of the Nation, incit…
Akhbor: "How Pamiris live today" — Pamiri diaspora perspective
Akhbor (Pamiri/Tajik opposition diaspora outlet) Russian-language article on current social conditions among Pamiris in GBAO and in diaspora, the economic situation, and the ongoing effects of the 2022 crackdown.…
Азаттык Азия: Civil society — main victim of repression in autonomous regions of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Azattyq Asia (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Kazakh service) feature by Chris Rickleton (Крис Риклтон), published 30 May 2023, comparing the crackdowns on civil society in Tajikistan's GBAO and Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan after the 2022 protests.…
Pamir Inside: "Who are the Pamiris? Ethnic group or nationality? Expert analysis"
Pamir Inside article dated 11 May 2023 (pamirinside.org/11498), prepared at the request of Pamir Daily News by experts from the Pamiri diaspora, examining the ethnic and national status of Pamiris in Tajikistan.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): sentence for Salafi cleric — daughter denied schooling
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the sentencing of a Salafi cleric in Tajikistan, with the indictment referencing among other facts that he "did not allow his daughter to continue her education." Documents the state's use of such facts to support religious-persecution charges.…
Centre1: father of IRPT leader Kabiri buried in Tajikistan
Centre1 Russian-language report on the death and burial in Tajikistan of the father of Muhiddin Kabiri, exiled IRPT leader. Documents attendance, family statements and the security-service presence, where reported.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Tohir Abdolbekov — GBAO court verdict upheld
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report that Tohir Abdolbekov's verdict by the GBAO court has been upheld on appeal. Documents the appellate process and the confirmed charge/sentence structure.…
Asia-Plus: Новые незаконные методы призыва в армию TJ
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 13 April 2023. The article reports on new forms of what it calls illegal conscription practices in Tajikistan, published at the start of the spring 2023 conscription (1 April – 31 May). The article reports that men aged 18 to 27 are called up, that the age cohort exceeds 200,000, and that unofficial estimates put each campaign at…
Asia-Plus (27 March 2023): Uzbekistan criminalises domestic violence — what about Tajikistan?
Asia-Plus, in a 27 March 2023 article, reports that on 23 March Uzbekistan's parliament adopted a bill introducing criminal and administrative liability for domestic violence, citing IA Fergana and the lower chamber's press service. The article reports that the bill increases liability for intercourse with or coercion of persons under 16 (including "unnatura…
YOUR: Вся военная мощь-2023 какая армия TJ сегодня
Feature by YOUR.tj (23 February 2023) marking Tajikistan's Defender of the Fatherland Day and the 30th anniversary of its Armed Forces. The article reports that, unlike other Central Asian republics, Tajikistan inherited no Soviet-era weaponry, and that its national armed forces were formally established on 22 February 1993. Drawing on the Global Firepower I…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): what awaits small and medium business in Tajikistan
Radio Ozodi Russian-language analysis of the operating environment facing small and medium-sized business in Tajikistan, including tax inspectorate practices, informal payment expectations and barriers to formalisation.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Prosecutor General provides details of GBAO activists cases
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report conveying the Prosecutor General's official account of prosecutions of GBAO activists. Documents the state position on specific named cases and the charge basis.…
Радио Озоди: Tajik Prosecutor General's Office reveals details of cases against GBAO civil activists
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report dated 27 January 2023 summarising the Prosecutor General's 26 January 2023 statement on criminal cases against Pamiri civil-society activists Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva, Faromuz Irgashev, Manuchehr Kholiknazarov and others.…
ADC Memorial: Five stories about Pamir and Pamiris
Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial, published 26 January 2023 on adcmemorial.org, presents a five-story feature on Pamiri peoples living in the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region (BMAR/GBAO) of Tajikistan. The report states that years of discrimination against Pamiris have escalated into brutal repression following events of 2021–2022. Story 1 (…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Tolib Ayombekov and Munavvar Shanbiev — life sentences in GBAO case
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the imposition of life sentences on Tolib Ayombekov and Munavvar Shanbiev in the GBAO case. Documents charge basis, prosecution account and defence position.…
Ахбор: Как живут сегодня памирцы (original unavailable)
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USDOS TJ HR Report (baseline): USDOS TJ HR Report (baseline)
WebFetch-blocked — source URL requires browser with JS; metadata preserved, full content not extractable. The record is retained as a pointer to the U.S. Department of State 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices — Tajikistan chapter, an English-language baseline reference document. The underlying report text could not be retrieved in this batch beca…
Novastan: Recruitment in Tajik army hell for recruits
The report states that Tajikistan's annual recruitment of young men for two years of compulsory military service is a major problem for the authorities because of widespread reluctance to serve, with many young men emigrating to avoid it. According to the report, citing Tajik outlet Asia-Plus, of around 300,000 young men of call-up age, 150,000 are deemed un…
HSE Anticor: Tajikistan country profile
Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Russian-language anti-corruption country profile of Tajikistan. Academic reference summary of Tajik anti-corruption institutions, legislation and enforcement patterns.…
Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (English translation)
The English-language translation of the "Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Tajikistan" is an official legislative text governing criminal procedure, originally adopted in 2009 (News of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan, p. 2009, No. 12, art. 815–816) and amended numerous times through 2022, most recently by Laws No. 1926 and 1927 of…
Radio Ozodi (Azattyq Asia): Civic activist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva sentenced to 21 years
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia, in a 9 December 2022 article, reports that the Supreme Court of Tajikistan has sentenced Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva — a journalist and civic activist from Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) — to 21 years' imprisonment. The article reports that informed sources told Radio Ozodi the verdict was delivered at the start of that week, that the Suprem…
Novastan: TJ ethnic cleansing repression in Pamirs
Novastan article dated 27 November 2022, originally published on Novastan's French website on 19 November 2022, describes the repression of Pamiris in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The report states that since the May 2022 events, Tajikistan has suffered an unprecedented wave of repression, with dozens sentenced to years of imprison…
ADC Memorial: Repressions against Pamiris
Anti-Discrimination Centre (ADC) Memorial, in a speech by Rustamjon Joniev published 5 October 2022 on adcmemorial.org, reports on repression against the Pamiri people of Tajikistan's Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region (BMAR). The report states that on 18 May 2022 an event took place in the town of Vamar (administrative centre of the Rushansky district…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Salam Imomnazarov — 16-year sentence, transferred to Khujand
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the sentencing of Salam Imomnazarov, a named GBAO defendant, to 16 years' imprisonment and his subsequent transfer to a facility in Khujand. Documents the charges, court process and transfer conditions.…
Blue Domes: Conscripts in Central Asia dangerous obligation
The report states that soldiers across Central Asia, particularly conscripts, face serious dangers from bullying, hazing, beatings, accidents and psychological pressure, and that these factors account for a large share of deaths and injuries in the region's armed forces. It opens with the 18 August 2022 gunshot death of 19-year-old Syrgak Sabyrbekov at Kyrgy…
Radio Ozodi: Salam Imomnazarov, sentenced to 16 years, transferred to Khujand colony
Radio Ozodi (Радио Озоди), dated 22 August 2022, reports that Salam Imomnazarov (Салам Имомназаров), a sportsman and the son of a killed informal leader of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO / ГБАО), was transferred to the Khujand colony to serve a 16-year prison sentence for alleged drug trafficking. The article states the sentence was handed down…
Радио Озоди: In Khorog, khalifa Muzaffar Davlatmirov sentenced to 5 years in a colony
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report by Mirzonabi Kholikzod dated 4 August 2022 on the initial 5-year sentence handed to Khorog khalifa Muzaffar Davlatmirov under article on public calls to extremist activity.…
Радио Озоди: Tajik activist sentenced to 6 years for "calls to extremism"
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report by Mirzonabi Kholikzod, dated 28 July 2022, on the 6-year prison sentence handed to social-media activist Shodruz Ahrorov after deportation from Russia to Tajikistan.…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): activist sentenced to 6 years for "inciting extremism"
Radio Ozodi (Tajik service of RFE/RL) Russian-language report on the sentencing of a named civil activist to 6 years under extremism statutes in Tajikistan. Documents charge basis, trial context and family statements.…
Радио Озоди: Court sentences two members of "Commission 44" from GBAO to 18 years' imprisonment
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report by Mirzonabi Kholikzod dated 30 June 2022 on the 18-year prison sentences handed to two Pamiri civil-society activists Khujamri Pirnazarov and Shaftolu Bekdavlatov, members of "Commission 44" set up after the November 2021 Khorog events.…
openDemocracy (Russian): "With eyes wide shut" — long echo of Tajik civil war
openDemocracy Russian-language long-form piece on the enduring effects of the 1992–1997 Tajik Civil War on contemporary Tajik political culture, including pattern of selective prosecution of former UTO-aligned figures and their descendants.…
Izvestia: "The unsubdued Pamir — why protests broke out in Tajikistan"
Izvestia (major Russian newspaper) Russian-language feature on the May–June 2022 GBAO protests in Tajikistan, setting out the causes, chronology, and political background to the unrest that led to the subsequent crackdown on Pamiri activists.…
Известия: Непокорённый Памир — из-за чего в Таджикистане вспыхнули протесты (original unavailable)
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CAA Network: Kabiri — "I do not regret the path of tolerance"
CAA Network Russian-language interview with Muhiddin Kabiri, exiled leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT/PIVT), setting out his position on the party's historical path and his current status in exile.…
OMCT: Mamadshoeva arbitrary detention
Published on 31 May 2022 by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders — a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH — this urgent intervention (reference TJK 001 / 0522 / OBS 036, Paris-Geneva) reports on the arbitrary detention of Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, a prominent human rights defender, journalist and Pamiri…
Mediazona Central Asia: Tajik journalist describes online harassment campaign over ties to Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva
Mediazona Central Asia, in a 26 May 2022 news item, reports that Tajik journalist Ramziya Mirzobekova publicly described a harassment campaign against her stemming from her acquaintance with jailed rights defender Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva, citing the outlet "Bomdod." The article reports that on 25 May Mirzobekova wrote on Facebook that a group she says is lin…
Fergana News: Journalist Ulfat Mamadshoeva detained in Dushanbe on suspicion of organising GBAO protests
Fergana News, in an 18 May 2022 article, reports that journalist and rights defender Ulfatkhonim ("Ulfat") Mamadshoeva was detained in Dushanbe on suspicion of organising the 16 May protest in Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO). The article reports that people close to the journalist told Fergana that officers of Tajikistan's State Committee for National Securi…
CABAR Longreads (Russian): the 90s generation and the Tajik Civil War
CABAR (Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting) Russian-language long-form piece on the generation that grew up during the 1992–1997 Tajik Civil War, the continuing social effects and the place of the civil war in contemporary Tajik politics.…
Радио Озоди: Кабири о формировании военного крыла оппозиции (видео)
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 11 May 2022 and authored by Мирзонаби Холикзод (Mirzonabi Kholikzod), reports an interview with Мухиддин Кабири (Muhiddin Kabiri), leader of the National Alliance of Tajikistan and of the Tajikistan-banned Islamic Renaissance Party (ПИВТ / IRPT), addressing reports about the formation of an armed wing of…
Радио Озоди: "Alovatshoev was tried on five articles" — relatives of the GBAO youth activist demand review of the sentence
Radio Ozodi / Azattyq Asia report by Mirzonabi Kholikzod dated 6 May 2022 on the 18-year prison sentence handed to Pamiri youth activist Amriddin Alovatshoev after a closed trial in Dushanbe.…
ICJ: TJ justice system must be reformed (UN statement)
The statement, delivered on 23 March 2022 by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) before the UN Human Rights Council during discussion of the outcome of Tajikistan's Universal Periodic Review, calls for comprehensive judicial reform in Tajikistan to protect human rights. According to the ICJ, the organisation welcomes Tajikistan's acceptance of reco…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Alovatshoev — 5 charges, relatives request review
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the prosecution of Amriddin Alovatshoev, extradited from Belarus and tried on five articles of the Tajik Criminal Code. Family members request case review; article sets out charge structure and defence position.…
HRF: UN condemned kidnapping of Gadoev
The report states that the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomed a determination by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) that the February 2019 kidnapping and subsequent detention of Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev in Russia and Tajikistan were arbitrary and in violation of international law. According to the report, the UNWGAD…
Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan — full Russian text
Full text of the Tax Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (Налоговый Кодекс Республики Таджикистан), Russian-language primary legal source hosted on the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Moscow-embassy file server. The document is structured as a codification divided into Part I (General Part, "ЧАСТЬ I. ОБЩАЯ ЧАСТЬ"), with Section I "Общие положения" and Chapt…
Независимая газета: Dushanbe subdues Pamir — another confrontation between the autonomy and the centre
Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Russian newspaper) article by Viktoria Panfilova, published 28 November 2021, on the November 2021 protests in Khorog (GBAO, Tajikistan) triggered by the killing of Gulbiddin Ziyobekov.…
Asia-Plus: В Пенджикенте военкомат пришли в учебное заведение
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 26 November 2021. The article reports that military commissariat staff in Panjakent (Пенджикент), Sughd region, detained dozens of students during raids at the city's pedagogical institute. According to the article, a Facebook post in the group "I Panjakent! Панҷакентро медорам! Я Пенджикент!" reported that on the morning of 26 N…
Радио Озоди: Оппозиция опровергла информацию МВД об аресте 33 своих сторонников
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 4 August 2021, reports that the Tajik opposition in exile denied a statement by Interior Minister Рамазон Рахимзода (Ramazon Rahimzoda) regarding arrests of their supporters. Article reports Rahimzoda told a 4 August press conference in Dushanbe that 143 people were detained in the first six months of th…
Asia-Plus: TJ Central Bank unaware of shadow economy scale
The article, published by Asia-Plus on 22 July 2021, reports that Hokim Kholiqzoda, head of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), stated at a news conference in Dushanbe that he does not have information about the scale of the hidden economy in the country. The report quotes the NBT head saying "No country will be able to determine the scale of shadow econo…
TRC Leiden: Lakai Uzbeks
Textile Research Centre (TRC) Leiden short encyclopedic entry on the Lakai Uzbeks (last modified 17 May 2021), part of the TRC Needles online database on regional embroidery traditions of the Iranian Plateau. The report states that the Lakai Uzbeks moved from Central Asia in the north and settled in the Kunduz area of northern Afghanistan after the Bolshevik…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): imam-khatib detained after Salafi-related funeral
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the detention of an imam-khatib following his delivery of remarks at a funeral. Documents the circumstances, the imam's identity and the state's framing of his remarks in terms of "extremism" / Salafi association.…
Asia-Plus: Чтобы узнать от чего умер сын в армии нужно иметь дядю
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 3 March 2021. The article is the sixth story from the book "History of 13 Soldiers or Lost Dreams" by the NGO "Office of Civil Freedoms" (Офис гражданских свобод). The article reports on the death of 19-year-old conscript Manuchehr Saburov (Манучехр Сабуров) from Tanobchi village (село Танобчи), Nurabad district (Нурабадский райо…
Asia-Plus: Умер Шахбол Мирзоев солдат покалечен 7 лет назад
Asia-Plus (Russian edition), 1 February 2021. The article reports the death of Shakhbol Mirzoev (Шахбол Мирзоев), a soldier of Tajikistan's Border Service who had been left disabled seven years earlier while serving in the army. According to the article, his relatives told Asia-Plus that he had been admitted to the regional hospital in Khujand (Худжанд), Sug…
TI Knowledge Hub: Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Central Asia
The Transparency International Knowledge Hub brief "Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Central Asia", dated 28 January 2021 and authored by Krista Lee-Jones with Matthew Jenkins and Altynai Myrzabekova as reviewers, is an Anti-Corruption Helpdesk brief produced in response to a query from a Transparency International national chapter. The report s…
HRW: Dissident's family interrogated, threatened
The report states that in a joint news release dated 4 December 2020, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee documented the summoning, interrogation and threatening by Tajik authorities of family members of exiled activist Fatkhuddin Saidmukhidinov, apparently to force him to stop his online criticism of the government. According to the repo…
GAN Integrity: Tajikistan country risk report
The country risk profile, published by GAN Integrity on 5 November 2020, assesses corruption as "a serious obstacle" for companies operating or investing in Tajikistan, permeating almost all sectors of the economy. According to the report, networks of patronage and clientelism impede a competitive business environment, bribery and gifts are widespread, and w…
CABAR: How to avoid military recruitment raids in TJ
The report states that, at the start of Tajikistan's 1 October autumn conscription campaign, officials of military commissariats and internal affairs bodies routinely conduct "oblava" raids to meet conscription plans, and sets out, via interview with lawyer Dilrabo Samadova, the legal framework surrounding these practices. The report describes raids as the i…
TJ Criminal Code 1998 amended 2020 EN (legislationline): TJ Criminal Code 1998 amended 2020 EN (legislationline)
The report states that this is the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, an unofficial English translation from the Russian-language source published by the National Centre of Legislation under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, hosted on legislationline.org. The report states that the Code was originally adopted in 1998 and has been amended…
Diplomat: TJ Most Fearless Lawyer Yorov
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Asia-Plus: Arrest of journalist Daler Sharifov
On 4 February 2020 Asia-Plus published an explanatory article about the arrest of Tajik journalist Daler Sharifov (Далер Шарифов), who had been in custody for one week. The article reports that on 28 January 2020 the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) office in Dushanbe's Shohmansur district summoned Sharifov for a "conversation"; on 29 January he…
Asia-Plus: journalist Daler Sharifov arrested on alleged "Muslim Brotherhood" charges — 4 February 2020
Asia-Plus profile of journalist Daler Sharifov, detained in February 2020. The report sets out the factual record of his arrest following publication of the treatise "Muhammad and terrorism", the allegation of links to the banned "Muslim Brotherhood" organisation in Tajikistan, and the subsequent 1-year sentence. Sharifov was released in January 2021. Useful…
Forum18: Mulloyev 12yr secret trial Tabligh
Forum 18 News Service, reporting from Oslo on 23 January 2020, documents the case of 35-year-old Muslim Sadriddin Mulloyev, sentenced on 2 January 2020 by a Dushanbe court to 12 years in a strict-regime prison after a closed trial. The article states Mulloyev was punished for earlier membership of the Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement, which Tajikistan's Su…
'Spotlight' Initiative (EU/UN) 2020: Brief overview of the gender-based-violence cooperation mechanism at local level in Rudaki district, Tajikistan
This 2020 reference booklet — produced under the EU–UN "Spotlight" ("Луч света") Initiative to end violence against women and girls, and published for Rudaki district of Tajikistan — sets out the local-level cooperation mechanism for gender-based-violence (GBV) cases. The document reports definitions drawn from the UN CEDAW Convention, CEDAW General Recommen…
RFE/RL: Tajik Business Empire Tied To The President Keeps On Running, Despite Being Shut Down
The RFE/RL article "A Tajik Business Empire Tied To The President Keeps On Running, Despite Being Shut Down", dated 24 December 2019 and written by RFE/RL's Tajik Service, examines the claimed dissolution of the Faroz conglomerate controlled by President Emomali Rahmon's son-in-law Shamsullo Sohibov. The report states that three months earlier, on 17 Septemb…
Asia-Plus: named case — young woman in Shohmansur district fined 175 somoni for 'black hijab', called a 'terrorist' by police
On 23 October 2019 Asia-Plus published a Tajik-language news report on a named case of unlawful detention and fining of a hijab-wearing young woman in the Shohmansur district of Dushanbe. The report documents police practice pre-dating the 2024 amendment to the Law on the Regulation of Traditions and Ceremonies: authorities enforcing informal dress restricti…
OCCRP: Last Breath for Tajiks Largest Company (Faroz)
The news article, published by OCCRP on 13 September 2019 and reported by Zdravko Ljubas, reports that Faroz — described as a controversial and one of the largest Tajik conglomerates — announced the liquidation of its assets, saying the company had "lost its competitiveness in the country's market." According to the report, Central Asian media outlet Akhbor…
OCCRP: Sprawling shadow economy in Tajikistan
The OCCRP news item "Officials Examine Sprawling Shadow Economy in Tajikistan", dated 2 August 2019, summarises statements by Tajik officials and findings on the scale of the country's shadow economy. The report states that the chairman of Tajikistan's State Investment Committee, Farrukh Hamralizadeh, told a press conference in Dushanbe that the shadow econo…
OCCRP: Kidnapping, Torture, and Freedom (Gadoev, 2019 Moscow)
The report, part of OCCRP's "Tajikistan: Money by Marriage" investigation, recounts the February 2019 kidnapping of Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev from Moscow and his subsequent interrogation in Dushanbe. According to the report, Gadoev, a former businessman granted asylum in the Netherlands, travelled to Moscow in February 2019 for meetings wi…
ILO: Diagnostics of Informality in Tajikistan
The news item, published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on 9 April 2019, reports on a national tripartite round table held in Dushanbe under the ILO project "From the Crisis towards decent and Safe Jobs." The document reports that Valentin Mocanu, ILO Moscow Senior Specialist on Labour Administration, Labour Inspection and OSH, opened the eve…
OCCRP: Lust for Gold
The OCCRP investigation "Lust for Gold", part of the "Tajikistan: Money by Marriage" project, examines how a UK-listed mining firm paid a "success fee" to a company controlled by President Emomali Rahmon's son-in-law Shamsullo Sakhibov in exchange for a gold-mining licence. The report states that in June 2016 Rahmon opened the "Pakrut" gold-processing facili…
HRW: Refugee escapes TJ after YouTube plea (Gadoev)
The report states that this 18 March 2019 Human Rights Watch commentary, published on the Lacuna Blog, recounts the case of Tajik political activist Sharofiddin Gadoev, 33, who had fled repression and lived with his wife in the Netherlands with refugee status since 2015 before being kidnapped by Russian officials during a February 2019 visit to Moscow and fl…
RFE/RL: Opposition activist — 'I was kidnapped by the Tajik government' (Gadoev)
The report, published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tajik Service on 7 March 2019, accompanies a 2-minute 5-second video interview with Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev following his return to Europe. The report states that Gadoev, based in the Netherlands, had sworn he would never voluntarily return to his home country. According to the r…
Amnesty 2019: Gadoev released further information
The report states that Amnesty International issued a follow-up Urgent Action on 5 March 2019 (Index EUR 60/9957/2019) reporting that Tajik opposition leader Sharofiddin Gadoev had returned safely to the Netherlands on 2 March 2019. The report states that Gadoev had previously been held by the Tajik authorities following his arbitrary arrest in Moscow on 14…
Eurasianet: Opposition activist state-ordered kidnapping details
The report states that Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev provided details of what he described as a state-ordered kidnapping in February 2019, when he was detained in Moscow and forcibly flown back to Tajikistan. The report states that Gadoev, a member of the Europe-based National Alliance of Tajikistan and of Group 24, a movement banned as extrem…
Amnesty 2019: Gadoev opposition activist at risk Moscow kidnap
The report states that Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action on 28 February 2019 (Index EUR 60/9926/2019) warning that Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev was believed to be held by Tajik authorities following his arbitrary arrest in Moscow on 14 February 2019 and his forcible return to Tajikistan. The report states that Gadoev is a member o…
HRW: Activist forcibly returned from Russia
The report states that in a joint statement dated 24 February 2019, Human Rights Watch, the Association of Central Asian Migrants, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee documented the arbitrary detention of Tajik opposition activist Sharofiddin Gadoev by Russian and Tajik officials in Moscow, and his forcible r…
RFE/RL: Tajik activist forcibly returned from Russia faces politically motivated prosecution
The report states that human rights organisations — the Association of Central Asian Migrants, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee — issued a joint statement on 24 February 2019 saying that Tajik and Russian officials had arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Tajikistan oppos…
HRW World Report 2019: Tajikistan (LGBT registry mentioned)
The report states that Tajikistan's human rights record deteriorated further in 2018, with authorities jailing government critics including opposition activists, journalists and relatives of peaceful dissidents. It states that authorities harassed relatives of dissidents abroad, imposed travel bans on family members including children and grandchildren of op…
Front Line Defenders: Mirsaidov detained
The case file, compiled by Front Line Defenders, documents the prosecution of Tajik independent journalist and human rights defender Khayrullo Mirsaidov. According to the report, Mirsaidov had worked as an independent journalist and political analyst for 17 years, reporting for Deutsche Welle, Asia-Plus and Fergana, and delivered media training for OSCE, UND…
CABAR.asia: Коррупция в городском Центре здоровья №1 Душанбе
CABAR.asia investigative article (Russian, by author M. Rozikzoda / Розикзода М.) reports on alleged corrupt practices at City Health Centre No. 1 (Городской Центр здоровья №1) in the Firdavsi district of Dushanbe. The article reports that the centre has 326 staff and is visited by up to 800 patients per day. Journalists visited as ordinary patients on 8 Dec…
Exeter Central Asian Studies: Kabiri Muhiddin exile
The report states that the Exeter Central Asian Studies Network profile on Muhiddin Kabiri documents his exile from Tajikistan following years of pressure on the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), which he has led since 2006. The report states that Kabiri went into self-imposed exile in Turkey in June 2015, fearing criminal prosecution on allegation…
Радио Озоди: Paying Taxes 2019 TJ худшая страна по налогам
The article reports that Tajikistan ranked among the nine countries with the highest tax burden in the "Paying Taxes 2019" study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers in cooperation with the World Bank. According to the article, Tajikistan's total tax rate reached 67.3%, measured as the share of taxes and contributions in company profits. Only the Comoros (219…
Front Line Defenders: Shukhrat Kudratov case history
The case history, compiled by Front Line Defenders, documents the prosecution of Tajik human rights lawyer Shukhrat Kudratov, a leading lawyer for the independent news agency Asia-Plus and named Human Rights Defender of the Year 2011 by the local Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law. According to the report, Kudratov was one of few human rights lawyers in…
Radio Ozodi (Russian): Paying Taxes 2019 — Tajikistan worst country on tax burden
Radio Ozodi Russian-language report on the PwC/World Bank "Paying Taxes 2019" study in which Tajikistan was rated the worst-performing country on tax compliance burden. Sets out the methodology, ranking and Tajik-specific findings.…
Nastoyashchee Vremya: Мы их с гарантией лечим (психиатр TJ о ЛГБТ)
The article, published on 19 October 2018 on Nastoyashchee Vremya / Current Time (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) by correspondent Anushervon Aripov (Анушервон Арипов), is titled "'We cure them with a guarantee': what Tajikistan's chief psychiatrist proposes to do with LGBT". The article reports that the chief psychiatrist of Tajikistan states in a video in…
Amnesty: Mirsaidov release victory
The statement, published by Amnesty International on 22 August 2018, reports that a Tajikistani court released independent journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov after more than eight months in detention for making allegations of government corruption. Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is quoted calling the releas…
FIDH: Mirsaidov 12yr high-security penal colony
The report states that on 16 July 2018, FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), operating as the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, issued Urgent Appeal TJK 001 / 0718 / OBS 094 concerning Khayrullo Mirsaidov, a Tajik journalist covering human rights, environment and national minorities. The document reports that on 11…
HRW: Mirsaidov conviction mockery of rights
The news release, issued jointly by Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee from Bishkek on 13 July 2018, reports that a Tajik court on 11 July 2018 convicted journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov of embezzling and misusing state funds and false reporting to police and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The document states that the regional Prosec…
CPJ: Mirsaidov 12yr after alleging official corruption
The article reports that on 11 July 2018 a court in Tajikistan found independent journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov guilty of embezzling and misusing state funds and false reporting to police, and sentenced him to 12 years in a high-security prison. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), publishing from New York, condemned the ruling and called on Tajik aut…
Diplomat: 12-year sentence to whistleblower journalist
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CAT: Concluding observations 3rd periodic report Tajikistan
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OCCRP: When the Country is a Business
The OCCRP investigation "When the Country is a Business", dated 5 June 2018 and part of the "Tajikistan: Money by Marriage" series, examines how the Faroz conglomerate — controlled by President Emomali Rahmon's son-in-law Shamsullo Sakhibov — grew into a dominant force across the Tajik economy. The report states that in 2017 over 600 high-tech diagnostic lab…
Diplomat: Whats in the way of TJ development
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Hromadske: Страх унижения принудительное лечение жизнь геев TJ
The article, published by Hromadske on 11 May 2018, is a reported feature on the situation of gay men in Tajikistan under the headline "Fear, humiliation and forced treatment: the life of gays in Tajikistan — one of the hardest in the world". The article is set in Dushanbe and in Tajik regions and uses pseudonyms for its gay respondents: Dilovar (Диловар), A…
OHCHR: CAT considers TJ report
OHCHR — CAT considers TJ report. English-language source on Tajikistan (debt economic), published 2018-04-01. Listed here as a reference alongside the translated Russian and Tajik-language items in the library. The original is in English; no translation is required — readers can access the source directly at the publisher URL. Topic classification is inferre…
RFE/RL: Kabiri removed from Interpol Red Notice (IRPT)
The report, published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on 3 March 2018, states that on 2 March 2018 Muhiddin Kabiri, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), announced that Interpol had removed his name from its "Red Notice" wanted list. According to the report, IRPT spokesman Mahmudjon Faizrahmonov described the decision as a "setback…
OCCRP: A Murder in Istanbul (Kuvvatov vs Sohibov)
The investigation, published by OCCRP as part of its "Tajikistan: Money by Marriage" project, recounts the March 2015 assassination of Tajik businessman and opposition activist Umarali Kuvvatov in Istanbul and the earlier loss of his company to the son-in-law of President Emomali Rahmon. According to the investigation, Kuvvatov was shot in the street after h…
CPJ: Mirsaidov arrested after alleging corruption
Published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ, New York) on 13 December 2017, this news release reports the arrest of Tajik journalist Khayrullo Mirsaidov and calls for charges against him to be dropped. The document reports that Mirsaidov was arrested weeks after publishing an open letter to President Emomali Rahmon, the general prosecutor, and the…
Asia-Plus: А геев попрошу остаться зачем ставят на учёт
The article reports that local journalists learned from the departmental journal of the General Prosecutor's Office Qonuniyat (Конуният, "Legality", No. 1, 2017) that Tajik police register members of the LGBT community on a special operational list. The article reports that the information came from an article by Minister of Internal Affairs Ramazon Rahimzod…
Diplomat: Presidential family ousts fuel market competitor
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Out.com: TJ database suspected gay citizens forced HIV tests
The report states that Tajikistan compiled a list of 367 suspected gay and lesbian citizens and required them to provide blood samples for sexually-transmitted-disease testing, according to a journal published by the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. It states that 319 men and 48 women were identified through two operations named "Purge" and "Morality,…
NBC: TJ registers 367 suspected gays and lesbians in database
The report states that Tajikistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs compiled a list of 367 suspected gay and lesbian citizens and required them to undergo HIV and sexually-transmitted-disease testing, according to an official journal published by the country's Prosecutor-General's Office. It states that prosecutors and police identified 319 men and 48 women thr…
RFERL: TJ creates registry of proven LGBT people
The report states that prosecutors in Tajikistan drew up a registry of more than 300 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, a move officially described as aimed at protecting sexual minorities and halting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. It states that an article in an official journal published by the Tajik Prosecutor-General's Office li…
OCCRP: Ex-top anti-corruption officials jailed for corruption TJ
The news article, published by OCCRP on 20 September 2017 and reported by Bermet Talant, states that Tajikistan's Supreme Court jailed at least nine former top anti-corruption officials in what it describes as the largest and most high-profile corruption case in the country's history. According to the report, Firuz Kholmurodzoda, former deputy head of the in…
Ozodi: 90% розӣ аз ҳиҷоб даст кашанд рейди фаҳмондадиҳӣ
Radio Ozodi article (Tajik, published 16 August 2017, authored by Mullorajab Yusufi / Муллораҷаб Юсуфӣ) reports on a ten-day "explanation" campaign (маъракаи фаҳмондадиҳӣ) conducted 3–13 August 2017 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, by working groups initiated by the Committee on Women and Family Affairs (Кумитаи кор бо занон ва оилаи Тоҷикистон) together with repres…
CABAR Longreads: 'I could not even cry' — Children of the 90s and the civil war in Tajikistan
CABAR Longreads publishes a multimedia long-read titled «Я даже не могла плакать»: Дети 90-х и гражданская война в Таджикистане ("I could not even cry": Children of the 90s and the civil war in Tajikistan). The article reports that after Tajikistan's independence a societal split developed and by spring 1992 escalated into a civil war; it states the armed cl…
Centre1: Twenty years ago the civil war in Tajikistan ended
Centre1 publishes a commentary dated 27 June 2017 by author "Амири Замон" (pseudonym) marking the 20th anniversary of the end of Tajikistan's civil war. The article reports that on that date 20 years earlier a peace and national reconciliation agreement was signed between United Tajik Opposition (UTO) chairman Said Abdullo Nuri (Саид Абдулло Нури) and Tajiki…
RFE/RL: Tajikistan's Civil War — a nightmare the government won't let its people forget
The report, published by RFE/RL's Qishloq Ovozi blog on 23 June 2017 ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 27 June Tajik peace accord, recounts the scale and character of the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war. According to the report, the war began with rival demonstrations in Dushanbe in spring 1992 and pitted the government, led by former state-farm boss Emomali Ra…
HRW: TJ travel ban on rights lawyer
Human Rights Watch news release dated 16 May 2017 (Bishkek), issued jointly with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, reports that on 14 May 2017, Tajik border guards at the Auchi-Kalyacha border post with Kyrgyzstan prevented rights lawyer Fayzinisso Vohidova from leaving the country. The report states she was detained for eight hours, initially told there was…
Sputnik: Гражданская война 1992-1997 Таджикистан
Sputnik Tajikistan article marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Tajik peace accord. The article reports that Tajikistan's Day of National Unity is observed on 27 June, and that on 27 June 1997 in Moscow, under UN mediation, a final peace agreement was signed between the government of Tajikistan and the United Tajik Opposition (UTO). The article…
Eurasianet: TJ LGBT registry sparks outrage
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Centre1: Father of IRPT leader buried in Tajikistan
Centre1 reports on 24 October 2016 that on Saturday 22 October 2016, 95-year-old Tillo Kabirov (Тилло Кабиров), father of Muhiddin Kabiri (Мухиддин Кабири), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), died. According to the article, Tillo Kabirov was buried the same day in accordance with Muslim custom in his home village of Kasamdara, Fayz…
Group 24: Biography of Kuvvatov (opposition view)
The biographical article, published 8 October 2016 on the Group 24 news portal, presents the opposition movement's own account of the life of its founder Umarali Kuvvatov (full name Kuvvatov Umarali Izzatovich). According to the article, Kuvvatov was born on 21 November 1968 in Dushanbe and grew up in an orphanage. It states he began his working life as a sa…
Dialog.tj: entrepreneur Azizkhodzhaev sentenced to 2.5 years
Dialog.tj Russian-language report on the conviction and 2.5-year prison sentence of Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev on charges of inciting national/religious enmity. Local-outlet angle on a case used as reference point for retaliation against business critics.…
HRW: Tajikistan Government critic facing prison
Published by Human Rights Watch (Toronto) on 4 August 2016, this news release reports that Tajik businessman and government critic Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev was sentenced on 7 July 2016 to two-and-a-half years in prison. The document reports that relatives learned of the verdict only on 2 August 2016 because the trial was closed even to immediate family and proc…
Novosti Tajikistana: Azizkhodzhaev sentenced to 2.5 years
Novosti Tajikistana Russian-language report on the sentencing of Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev. Independent reproduction of the conviction and sentence facts complementing the Dialog.tj report.…
Azattyq Asia (Russian): start of Azizkhodzhaev trial
Azattyq Asia Russian-language report on the beginning of the criminal trial of Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev in Tajikistan. Documents pre-trial factual circumstances, named witnesses, and charge structure.…
HRW: Азизходжаев освободить критикующего власть
Human Rights Watch news release (Russian, dated 20 May 2016, datelined Toronto) reports on the case of Tajik entrepreneur Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev (Абубакр Азизходжаев / Abubakr Azizkhojaev), detained since February 2016. The article reports HRW's call on Tajik authorities to release him immediately, stating he is held on what HRW calls politically motivated ch…
Human Rights Watch (Russian): "Release Azizkhodzhaev — government critic" — 20 May 2016
Human Rights Watch Russian-language statement calling for the release of entrepreneur Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev, detained after his "Open Letter to the President" criticising Shamsullo Sohibov and the Faroz business empire. HRW characterises his prosecution as politically motivated. Named-case primary source on retaliation against entrepreneurs who criticise the…
HRW: Release government critic
Published by Human Rights Watch (Toronto) on 20 May 2016, this news release calls for the release of Tajik businessman and government critic Abubakr Azizkhodzhaev, detained since February 2016. The report states that he was arrested on 26 February 2016 at his home in Dushanbe, initially told he was being held as a witness, then charged under Article 189 of T…
Wikipedia: Buzurgmehr Yorov
The English-language Wikipedia article "Buzurgmehr Yorov" covers the Tajik human rights lawyer (born 9 July 1971) and member of the opposition Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan. The article states that Yorov served as head of the legal firm Sipar and was involved throughout the 2000s in high-profile legal cases representing individuals prosecuted by the…
HRW: Free human rights lawyers TJ
Published by Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (Oslo) on 4 May 2016, this joint report calls for the release of four imprisoned Tajik human rights lawyers and two sons of another prominent lawyer. The document reports that since 2014 Tajik authorities have arrested or imprisoned Shukhrat Kudratov, Fakhriddin Zokirov, Buzurgmehr Yorov, N…
Радио Озоди: Верховный суд — члены ПИВТ не подвергались пыткам
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 10 March 2016, reports on a statement by a Tajik Supreme Court judge denying allegations of torture of detained Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (ПИВТ / IRPT) members. Article reports that an anonymous Supreme Court judge involved in the trial told Radio Ozodi that torture allegations against 13 I…
TJinform: Tajik authorities to seek Interpol Red Notice against Kabiri
TJinform Russian-language report on the Tajik authorities' stated intention to seek an Interpol Red Notice against Muhiddin Kabiri. Documents the charges and the subsequent Interpol removal.…
Wikipedia: Umarali Kuvvatov
The English-language Wikipedia article "Umarali Kuvvatov" covers the Tajik businessman and politician (21 November 1968 – 5 March 2015), leader of the opposition Group 24, who was shot dead in Istanbul. The article states Kuvvatov was born in Dushanbe, grew up in an orphanage after both parents died, and studied economics at Tajik National University. Accord…
HRW: Severe crackdown on political opposition TJ
The report states that Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, in a joint news release dated 17 February 2016, documented a wide-ranging campaign by Tajik authorities to arrest, imprison and torture members of the country's peaceful political opposition, and to target perceived critics abroad. According to the report, the situation worsened…
Jamestown: Tajikistan bans leading opposition party (IRPT)
The report states that on 28 August 2015 Tajikistan's Ministry of Justice declared that the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) was "no longer a republican party", giving the party ten days to shut down operations. According to the report, the ministry cited Article 3 of the Law on Political Parties, which requires parties to operate in "most regi…
Al Jazeera: Trouble in Tajikistan (IRPT)
This Al Jazeera feature, titled "Trouble in Tajikistan," was published on 5 November 2015 at aljazeera.com/features/2015/11/5/trouble-in-tajikistan and appears in the Politics/IRPT section of the country-of-origin library. The archived PDF held in the collection contains only the browser print header and the source URL — the body of the article did not rende…
HRW: Yorov detained
Published by Human Rights Watch (Berlin) on 7 October 2015 as a joint statement by six international rights groups, this news release reports the 28 September 2015 arrest in Dushanbe of Tajik human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov on what the document describes as trumped-up fraud and document forgery charges (Articles 140 and 340 of the criminal code). The re…
Фергана: Кабири — ПИВТ закроют, народу лучше не станет
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Columbia Global Freedom of Expression: IRPT case
The report states that on 29 September 2015 the Supreme Court of Tajikistan, at the request of the Prosecutor General, classified the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) as a terrorist organization and banned the party along with its informational materials, including its official website and newspaper. The report states that in August 2015 the Ta…
Радио Озоди: Прокуратура предъявила официальные обвинения 13 активистам ПИВТ
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 27 September 2015, reports that on 26 September the Tajik General Prosecutor's Office formally charged 13 detained members of the High Council of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (ПИВТ / IRPT). Article reports the charges were brought under Article 187, Part 1 of the Tajik Criminal Code ("crea…
TJinform: Authorities to place IRPT leader Kabiri on international wanted list
TJinform reports from Dushanbe on 18 September 2015 that Tajikistan's law enforcement agencies are preparing to file documents with Interpol to place Muhiddin Kabiri (Мухиддин Кабири), leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), on the international wanted list. The article attributes the information to Radio Ozodi. According to the article…
Радио Озоди: В Таджикистане задерживают активных членов ПИВТ
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi, RFE/RL Tajik service) on 17 September 2015, reports on the detention of senior figures and activists of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (ПИВТ / IRPT). Article reports that within 24 hours four senior IRPT figures were detained by security officers, citing Radio Ozodi sources: Саидумар Хусайни (S…
Радио Озоди: Кабири — ПИВТ напоминает овцу, которая должна быть съедена волком
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 15 September 2015 and authored by Мирзо Салимпур (Mirzo Salimpur), reports a written interview with Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (ПИВТ / IRPT) leader Мухиддин Кабири (Muhiddin Kabiri), conducted while he was abroad. Article reports that in late August 2015 the Tajik Justice Ministry told the p…
HRW: Reverse political party closure (IRPT)
The report states that Human Rights Watch, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia jointly urged Tajikistan on 14 September 2015 to reverse the order closing the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT). According to the news release, the Justice Ministry officially revoked the IRPT's status as a national p…
Радио Озоди: Когда вернётся Кабири — эксклюзивное интервью с лидером ПИВТ
The article, published by Радио Озоди (Radio Ozodi) on 19 June 2015 and authored by Мирзо Салимпур (Mirzo Salimpur), reports an exclusive interview with Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (ПИВТ / IRPT) leader Мухиддин Кабири (Muhiddin Kabiri) during his stay abroad. Article reports that Kabiri was in Moscow for a conference marking the anniversary of th…
Freedom House: Turkey investigate Kuvvatov murder
The press release, issued by Freedom House on 5 March 2015 from Washington, calls on the Turkish government to fully investigate the murder of Tajikistani opposition leader Umarali Kuvvatov, who was shot dead that day in Istanbul. According to the statement by Susan Corke, director of Eurasia programs, the killing has "all the hallmarks of an assassination"…
OMCT: Sentencing of Mr. Sukhrat Kudratov
The OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) urgent intervention "Sentencing of Mr. Sukhrat Kudratov", dated 23 January 2015 and jointly issued by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders with FIDH under reference TJK 001 / 0115 / OBS 003, addresses the prosecution of a prominent Tajik human rights lawyer. The report states that Sukhrat…
HRW: Kudratov imprisoned
Published by Human Rights Watch (Berlin) on 14 January 2015, this news release reports that on 13 January 2015 a Dushanbe court sentenced prominent Tajik human rights lawyer Shukhrat Kudratov to nine years in prison on fraud and bribery charges, following what HRW describes as a politically motivated trial. The document reports that Kudratov is also deputy h…
Asia-Plus: Supreme Court of Tajikistan declares Group 24 an extremist organisation
Asia-Plus Russian-language contemporaneous report on the October 2014 designation of Group 24 as an extremist organisation by the Supreme Court of Tajikistan. Primary-source record of the founding legal designation that underpins subsequent Article 307 prosecutions of Group 24 members and sympathisers.…
Asia-Plus: Верховный суд объявил Группу 24 экстремистской
Asia-Plus article dated 9 October 2014 reporting that Tajikistan's Supreme Court declared the opposition movement "Group 24", organised by Tajik citizen Умарали Кувватов (Umarali Kuvvatov) who was then abroad, to be extremist and illegal. The article reports that presiding judge Саломат Хакимова (Salomat Khakimova) announced the court also banned domestic ac…
RFERL: Tajik opposition Group 24 banned as extremist
The report states that on 9 October 2014 Tajikistan's Supreme Court banned the opposition organisation Group 24 as "extremist" and prohibited its website and printed materials. According to the RFE/RL Tajik Service article, the decision followed growing government pressure on the group after it used the internet to call for street protests in the capital, Du…
Global Voices: Some young soldiers TJ army hazed to death
The report states that young Tajik conscripts are subject to severe hazing violence in the country's armed forces, highlighting the April 2014 death of recruit Akmal Davlatov, who according to an investigation concluding in early June 2014 choked on food and died en route to hospital after being beaten in the stomach by Lance Sergeant Farrukh Davlatov during…
HRW: Saidov long sentence blow to free expression
The report states that on 25 December 2013 a Dushanbe court sentenced Zaid Saidov, a prominent member of Tajikistan's political opposition, to 26 years in prison after what Human Rights Watch describes as a politically motivated trial. According to the HRW news release dated 7 February 2014, Saidov — a businessman, former government official and member of Du…
Eurasianet: Tajikistan gags ex-minister with long prison term
The report states that former Tajik Minister of Industry Zayd Saidov was sentenced in December 2013 by a Tajik court to 26 years in prison on charges including bribery, fraud and polygamy, a verdict that rights groups and opposition figures described as politically motivated. The report states that Saidov had resigned from government and launched plans in Ap…
TI Knowledge Hub: Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Tajikistan
The Transparency International Knowledge Hub brief "Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Tajikistan", dated 7 January 2013 and authored by Sofia Wickberg with Robin Hodess as reviewer, is an Anti-Corruption Helpdesk brief produced in response to a U4 Partner Agency query. The report states that its purpose is to provide an overview of the nature and…
NotortureTJ: Military conscription and hazing — three republications
NotortureTJ (Russian edition). The file consolidates three articles republished by the Coalition of Civil Society of the Republic of Tajikistan Against Torture and Impunity (Коалиция гражданского общества Республики Таджикистан против пыток и безнаказанности) at notorturetj.org. (1) "Army the Tajik way: Features of conscription" (Армия по-таджикски. Особенно…
San'at: Forgotten Tribe of Lakai
San'at magazine article (Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Issue 3, 2012) on the history and embroidery tradition of the Lakai tribe. The report states the Lakai were a numerous semi-nomadic Uzbek tribe who in the 19th century resided primarily in the Dushanbe and Kulyab provinces of the Bukhara Khanate and in parts of Afghanistan, and descended from the ancien…
Music for the Eyes: The Lakai Tribe of Central Asia
Music for the Eyes blog post (27 January 2011) by Fred and Sharon Lundahl profiles the Lakai, an Uzbek-speaking tribal group in Central Asia. The report states the Lakai are the only real nomads remaining in Central Asia, with some having settled into villages in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan together with their closely affiliated Kungrat and Mangit…
Cornell: Labor conditions in Tajikistan cotton industry
The report states that this August 2007 research report, conducted by the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) and the Tajikistan Social Institute for Youth and Civilization with Open Society Institute support, documents systematic forced and child labour in Tajikistan's cotton industry. Researchers surveyed 101 students and analysed contracts signed betw…
CEDAW NGO Alternative Report on Tajikistan (Dushanbe, 2006)
The 2006 NGO Alternative Report on Tajikistan's implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) — compiled in Dushanbe by a 25-NGO working group, consolidated by Tatyana Bozrikova (OF "Panorama"), Larisa Kabilova (League of Women Lawyers of RT) and Alla Kuvatova (NGO "Traditsii i sovremennost") with OS…
CPJ: Bokizoda Nerui Sukhan theft charges
Published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on 25 August 2005 (posted 29 August 2005), this legal-action alert reports that a judge in Dushanbe convicted Mukhtor Bokizoda, editor of the shuttered opposition weekly Nerui Sukhan ("Power of the Word"), on theft charges. The document reports that Bokizoda was sentenced to two years of "corrective" la…
TJ Criminal Executive Code EN 2011: TJ Criminal Executive Code EN 2011
The report states that this is the English-language text of the Criminal Executive Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, adopted on 6 August 2001 by Law No. 32 under President Emomali Rakhmonov, superseding the 1970 Tajik SSR Criminal Executive Code. The Code regulates the execution of criminal sentences and related penal measures. The report states that Artic…
Conciliation Resources: Tajik civil war causes and dynamics
The report states that Conciliation Resources' Accord publication on Tajikistan examines the causes and dynamics of the Tajik civil war of 1992-1997, which broke out shortly after the country's independence from the Soviet Union. The report states that the conflict pitted the post-Soviet government, drawing support primarily from the Kulob and Khujand (Lenin…
HRW: Leninabad crackdown in the north
The report states that this April 1998 Human Rights Watch country report (Vol. 10, No. 2 (D)) documents a government campaign against the political opposition in Tajikistan's northern Leninabad (Sughd) oblast following the June 1997 peace accord that ended five years of civil war. According to the report, the Leninabad-based opposition was excluded from the…
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