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A Tajik court has ordered pretrial detention of two months for one of two popular bloggers known for their reports criticizing authorities and detained recently in the capital, Dushanbe.
Two popular Tajik bloggers known for their reports criticizing authorities have been arrested and placed in a detention center in Dushanbe on charges they deny.
Kyrgyz officials say a Tajik traffic police officer has been arrested along with another Tajik national for allegedly trafficking illegal drugs amid tense relations between two Central Asian neighbors after a deadly shooting along a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
A Tajik border guard has been shot dead in a clash with Kyrgyz guards along the volatile and poorly demarcated common border.
Tajik authorities say they have arrested Muslim Sherzamonov, the brother of fugitive opposition politician Alim Sherzamonov, who is wanted for allegedly organizing and financing deadly anti-government protests in the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region.
Three influential figures in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have been detained by authorities, accused of murder and drugs- and weapons-smuggling charges among other series crimes.
Tajik authorities have officially launched a probe into last month's attack against journalists from RFE/RL's Tajik Service and Current Time amid an outcry by human rights advocates and media groups.
Tajik-born Russian singer Manizha, who has openly protested Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, has been removed from the list of performers at the upcoming Stereoleto song festival in St. Petersburg, scheduled for June 12-13.
A noted Tajik rights defender who was sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2021 on fraud charges that he has rejected has been handed an additional six years in prison.
A court in Tajikistan's northeastern district of Lakhsh has sentenced the mother of noted blogger Junaidullo Khudoyorov to two years of house arrest after finding her guilty of hooliganism, a charge the 66-year-old woman denies.
A court in Germany has sentenced five Tajik men to lengthy prison terms after finding them guilty of being members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization’s cell that planned terrorist attacks in Germany and elsewhere.
Tajik authorities say security forces have killed five more men in the restive Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO), bringing the official number of residents to die at the hands of law enforcement to 26, although locals say the total is much higher.
Tajik journalist Ulfatkhonim Mamadshoeva and her husband, Kholbash Kholbashov, have been shown on state-run television "confessing" to organizing deadly unrests in the Gorno-Badakhshan region, despite saying days earlier that she had nothing to do with the protests.
One of the informal leaders of Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) was killed on May 22 in Khorugh, the region's administrative capital, police said, adding that the death was the result of "internal clashes between criminal groups."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over reports of escalating tensions and violence, including casualties, in Tajikistan's restive region of Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO).
Residents of Tajikistan's restive region of Gorno-Badakhshan, where protesters have clashed with police in recent days, say the death toll from the violence is more than double the one given by officials.
Anti-government protest in Khorugh, the provincial capital of Gorno-Badakhshan has spread to other parts of the region, prompting the Tajik government to launch an “anti-terrorist” operation.
Tajik authorities say nine people, including a police officer, have been killed in "an anti-terrorist operation" in the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region as the government tries to quell protests sparked by anger over the lack of an investigation into the death of an activist in police custody.
One person died as police broke up a demonstration in Khorugh, the capital of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region, on the border with Afghanistan on May 16.
Four RFE/RL journalists -- two from its Tajik Service and two from Current Time -- were attacked on May 17 by unknown assailants after they interviewed an activist accused of organizing a protest march in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region that turned deadly.
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