DUSHANBE (Reuters) - At least five prisoners were killed and three employees were injured in a riot spurred by an attempted escape from a prison in the Tajikistan city of Vahdat, two sources in ...

Repression against independent voices is intensifying in Tajikistan ahead of the parliamentary elections on 2 March in which there are no real opposition candidates. The latest victim, Rukhshona ...

(photo credit: Police Spokesperson ) A court in Tajikistan has handed down prison sentences of between eight and 20 years to more than 30 people it convicted of trying to poison attendees of a ...

TJK 001 / 0225 / OBS 010 Administrative harassment / Criminalisation / Arbitrary detention Tajikistan 3 March 2025 The ...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A court in Tajikistan has handed down prison sentences of between eight and 20 years to more than 30 people it convicted of trying to poison attendees of a festival last year ...

Abbas Soori, Mehran Shamloui and Narges Nasri, about halfway through her pregnancy, have been sentenced without extenuating circumstances. Among the charges: ‘activities contrary to Islamic law ...

Tajikistan is a landlocked country of some 10 million people sandwiched between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. The majority of Tajiks are adherents of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.

As expected, the party of Emomali Rakhmon, who has been at the helm of the country since 1994, obtained an absolute majority ...

Neither Western monitors, nor media, were allowed to observe a poll characterized by the lack of genuine opposition in a ...