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The chief editor of "Hafta" (The Week) weekly, Hikmatyor Hikmatzoda, says that the Culture Ministry has withdrawn the license because the newspaper has covered issues that were not outlined in the periodical's charter.
A young Tajik man who recently described his closeted life as a homosexual in articles and a video published by RFE/RL says he has been beaten and stabbed outside his home in the capital in retribution for his interview.
The UN special rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, has called on the Tajik authorities to fully implement policies for the eradication and prevention of torture and ill-treatment.
The leader of the Tajik Council of Ulemas (Islamic clerics) has called on Muslims to shun homosexuals, saying they will face "awful punishment" on Judgment Day.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has sacked the chief of the Tajik Railways Company (RIT) amid an ongoing controversy over the alleged involvement of the latter's son in a deadly driving incident.
The daughter-in-law of a high-profile Tajik diplomat has been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for drug trafficking.
A member of Tajikistan's opposition Islamic Renaissance Party has died in a prison hospital in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand.
Officials say five Kyrgyz border guards, one Kyrgyz policeman, and two Tajik border guards have been hospitalized with injuries after tensions escalated into exchanges of gunfire along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
The mayor of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, has banned music in the city's public transportation system that is "alien to national and universal human values."
Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards and police will now jointly patrol disputed segments of their mutual border.
Tajik authorities are demanding Russia find and punish the killers of a Tajik national in Moscow.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced five of the country's citizens to around two years in jail for fighting on the side of antigovernment forces in Syria.
Several workers at the Dushanbe International Airport have been fired after being accused of extortion by a group of Latvian musicians.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is reshuffling the government after having been sworn in for his fourth seven-year term on November 16.
Emomali Rahmon was reelected on November 6 with more than 83 percent of the vote.
Two Tajik migrant workers have been found dead in Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast, the victims of a suspected beating.
Hundreds of fans of popular Tajik rappers Master Ismail and Bakh-84 have had to leave a concert in Moscow after an unidentified gas was released inside the Moscow Hall concert arena.
An earthquake in Tajikistan has destroyed more than 100 homes and damaged hundreds more, though no deaths were reported.
A group of international observers said on November 7 that Tajikistan's presidential election, won in a landslide by incumbent President Emomali Rahmon, lacked pluralism and genuine choice.
With Emomali Rahmon expected to win comfortably, polls have closed in Tajikistan's presidential election amid reports of irregularities at some polling stations
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