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Protests have ended in Tajikistan’s volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region after several hours of negotiations between government officials and representatives of the demonstrators on November 28, local residents told RFE/RL.
Rare protests in Tajikistan’s remote Gorno-Badakhshan region continued for a third day on November 27, after one protester was killed and five members of law enforcement were injured when a crowd stormed a local government building.
Prosecutors in Tajikistan are seeking an additional seven years in prison for a jailed Tajik lawyer on charges of having links with an extremist group.
The EU's foreign affairs representative, Josep Borrell, has met with foreign ministers from the five countries in Central Asia in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. The November 22 meeting focused on the issue of security in the region following the Taliban takeover in neighboring Afghanistan in August.
A high-level EU delegation has held talks in the Tajik capital with foreign ministers from Central Asia to discuss issues such as regional cooperation, human rights, and the situation in neighboring Afghanistan. Turkmenistan was represented by a deputy foreign minister.
A high-level delegation of European officials led by the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel, is holding talks in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, with foreign ministers from Central Asia over the situation in neighboring Afghanistan.
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has sent a letter to Tajik President Emomali Rahmon urging him to help end what they say are pressure and threats to RFE/RL's Tajik Service journalists and their families.
Two jailed Tajik opposition politicians have been placed in solitary confinement after sending a letter to President Emomali Rahmon from a penal colony.
A plane carrying U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other Afghan refugees to be relocated in the United States has taken off from Dushanbe airport in Tajikistan.
Tajiks are facing severe electricity shortages, with households, businesses, and rural hospitals getting just a few hours of electricity in the evening and early mornings. But the authorities insist there is no energy rationing and say the problem is caused by "winter preparation works."
Following an outcry from activists, authorities in Tajikistan have launched a probe into the alleged beating of a young woman, Madina Mamadjonova, who is currently in grave condition, by the wife of an executive of the Megafon cellular communications company.
Tajikistan has green-lighted a new Chinese security facility on its territory and has offered to grant full ownership of an existing base to Beijing, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Tajikistan has green-lighted a new Chinese-funded security facility on its territory and has offered to grant full ownership of an existing base to Beijing, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
The Dushanbe City Court has sentenced well-known Tajik human rights defender, Izzat Amon, to nine years in prison on fraud charges.
The jailed deputy chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan, Mahmurod Odinaev, has refused to sign papers that would shorten his prison term under a mass amnesty, saying he will only accept his immediate release and full exoneration.
The lengthy prison sentence of jailed Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov has been shortened as part of a recent mass amnesty adopted to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence.
Inhabitants of Tajikistan's Yaghnob Gorge, located some 3,000 meters above sea level, are used to being largely cut off from modern life. Most make a living from farming and tending livestock in the mountain pastures. But a pastoral life high in the mountains comes at a cost to some residents.
Worried about militant threats, Chinese troops have built some structures and lookout towers in Tajikistan as part of a growing security presence focused on Afghanistan. RFE/RL reports on the base from the Afghan-Tajik border.
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