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Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon has confirmed recent reports by RFE/RL's Tajik Service about a series of arrests of noted public figures and politicians.
Tajikistan's First Deputy Interior Minister Abdurahmon Alamshozoda has confirmed reports by RFE/RL's Tajik Service that 27 residents of the Yazgulom community in the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have been arrested.
An imprisoned member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) has been transferred to a prison infirmary.
A deal allowing Tajik and Iranian citizens to travel between the two nations without visas for up to 90 days per year -- with the first visit limited to 30 days -- will take effect on August 10, the Tajik Foreign Ministry said on August 6.
Thousands of Tajiks were deported from Russia in the first half of the year, with the exodus accelerating after authorities began carrying out sweeping checks of immigrants in the aftermath of a March terror attack by gunmen, four of whom are suspects from Tajikistan.
Sulaimon Jobirov, a former member of Tajikistan's Group 24 opposition movement, was sentenced to six years in prison on a charge of cooperating with a banned organization.
Asliddin Sharipov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on unspecified charges, a close associate told RFE/RL on July 29.
A noted member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) Muhammadali Faizmuhammad died in a prison infirmary at the age of 65, his relatives told RFE/RL on July 26.
While most Tajik opposition leaders have left the country amid a brutal government crackdown, Shokirjon Hakimov remained in Dushanbe and continued to openly criticize the authorities. Earlier this month, Tajikistan arrested the opposition politician and silenced a rare voice of dissent.
Some 3,400 Tajik migrant workers have not been allowed to enter Russia and turned back to Tajikistan from Russian airports over the last six months, the director of the Tajik Civil Aviation Agency, Habibullo Nazarzoda, told reporters on July 24.
Chinese firms are tapping into Tajikistan’s vast mineral wealth -- and angering Tajiks as they pollute the environment in the process -- yet still get preferential treatment from the government, an RFE/RL investigation has revealed.
Sources close to Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General's Office told RFE/RL on July 18 that noted Tajik lawyer and First Deputy Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan Shakirjon Hakimov was detained last week.
Sources close to Uzbek law enforcement told RFE/RL that noted ethnic Tajik journalist, Salim Inomzoda, was arrested on July 13 over a song he placed on social media.
The Chinese Embassy in Dushanbe on July 15 denied media reports that Beijing is building a military base in Tajikistan, calling the reports “groundless.”
Dozens of Tajik migrant workers returned to Tajikistan on July 8 after Russian authorities refused them entry to the country five days earlier amid a wave of anti-Tajik sentiment.
Sojida Saidmurodova, the mother of former top police officer Dilshod Saidmurodov, who is serving life in prison for kidnapping and killing a banker last year, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on corruption charges.
The Russian Wrestling Federation said on July 2 that Moscow police detained Alisher Ismatzoda, a coach of the Russian youth freestyle wrestling team, on suspicion of facilitating terrorist activities.
The parents of five young Tajik men from the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO) told RFE/RL on July 1 that the sons had been arrested and are being held in a pretrial detention in GBAO's capital, Khorugh, on unspecified charges.
Ahmadshoh Komilzoda, a well-known journalist and the first deputy chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, has been arrested, a Tajik law enforcement source told RFE/RL on June 27.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed concern over recently adopted amendments to Tajikistan's law on the regulation of traditions and ceremonies, saying it worsens religious freedom violations in the Central Asian state.
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