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A pair of earthquakes rocked Tajikistan overnight, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said, shaking buildings in Dushanbe.
Tajik opposition activist Nizomiddin Nasriddinov was detained in Belarus -- at Dushanbe's request -- while entering the country in early January and will be extradited to Tajikistan, where he may face arbitrary arrest and torture, Enira Bronitskaya of Human Constanta rights group said on March 14.
Tajik journalist Khurshed Fozilov, who was arrested last week in the Central Asian country's northeastern city of Panjakent, has been charged with public calls to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order.
A group of Tajik migrants working for a Russian company in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol claim their employers failed to pay them the full amount of wages they were promised in their contracts.
Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security has detained journalist Khurshed Fozilov on unspecified charges in the northeastern city of Panjakent, his mother says.
A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov has been extradited to Tajikistan from Germany and is currently in a detention center in Dushanbe.
A strong earthquake in Tajikistan's eastern district of Murghob early on February 23 was felt as far away as Dushanbe, the capital, and other parts of the Central Asian nation.
A notorious Islamic State recruiter from Tajikistan, Parviz Saidrahmonov (aka Abu Dovud), was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November on terrorism charges in Dushanbe, Tajik Supreme Court officials said on February 16.
Avalanches caused by heavy snow have killed at least 17 people in Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region.
Due to a recent cold snap in areas of Tajikistan, the birds of Khatlon Province have been struggling to fly. In such harsh conditions, they can get stuck in the snow and freeze. A local farmer has taken it upon himself to save the birds by letting them live in his greenhouse.
Sextuplets born in Tajikistan's northern Sughd region on January 11 have died within a day of their birth, maternity clinic officials told RFE/RL.
A song by Tajik rapper Suhrob Soliev about a Tajik man sent to fight in Ukraine with the Russian Army has become popular on social media. The song is based on a conversation with a real Tajik soldier who contacted the rapper from a hospital. The injured soldier was later killed in action.
Umeda Ghanieva, 14, and her sister Amina, 16, from Kulob in southern Tajikistan, have already won several boxing competitions. Just a year ago, the sisters and their widowed mother were collecting scrap metal to survive, but can now pursue their passion.
Tajikistan says it has completed an autumn military call-up amid claims that authorities resorted to extreme measures, such as cutting off electricity and closing mosques in villages to force parents to enlist their sons in the army.
A son of Tajik opposition politician Shamsiddin Saidov may be extradited to Tajikistan from Germany, where he will face arbitrary arrest and torture, according to the National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT), which unites several opposition groups in exile.
A brother-in-law of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has died in an Iranian clinic at the age of 54, sources close to Tajikistan's government told RFE/RL.
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations' special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, concluded a two-week visit to Tajikistan on December 9 by urging its government to "eliminate the intense atmosphere of fear" in the post-Soviet Central Asian republic.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced noted journalist and civil rights activist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva to 21 years in prison on charges related to deadly May protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan region, which rights watchdogs have called trumped-up.
Russian authorities have extradited a nephew of Tolib Ayombekov, the jailed informal leader of Tajikistan's volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region.
Former Tajik Vice President Narzullo Dustov, wanted in his native country over the organization of a mutiny against the government in 1998, died in Uzbekistan last month at the age of 82.
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