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Tajikistan's Supreme Court has handed prison terms to three well-known public figures for writing, editing, and publishing a book that highlights some of the challenges faced by those living in the tightly controlled former Soviet republic, which the authorities ordered cleared from bookstores.
The Tajik Prosecutor-General's Office, for the first time, confirmed on February 16 that opposition activist Bilol Qurbonaliev was arrested after Germany deported him in November.
Tajik migrant workers in the Russian city of Samara said they were scared and confused after Sunatullo Nazriev, the leader of the Tajik diaspora, called on Tajiks who have Russian citizenship and those who want to get Russian passports in an expedited way to join Russia's armed forces in Ukraine.
A crackly 6-year-old WhatsApp message records the last known words of Sitora, a Tajik woman whose husband had joined Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. Her mother later heard that Sitora was dead, but does not believe it and is also desperate to find the granddaughter who was born in Syria.
Tajikistan has reduced the number of jobs which it forbids women from doing. The new list still includes 194 professions and types of work that women cannot do, down from the previous 334.
One Tajik and one Russian were detained in Istanbul over a church shooting, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said late on January 28, describing the two men as members of the Islamic State (IS) extremist organization.
A source in Tajikistan's Supreme Court told RFE/RL on January 26 that former police Colonel Akmal Yusufzoda will face trial on charges of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a university teacher.
Tajikistan raised the minimum age for marriage from 17 to 18 more than a decade ago to try to reduce the number of early marriages. But underage marriages are actually on the rise in the Central Asian country despite government efforts to curtail them.
Tajik militant Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon), who is wanted in Dushanbe on terrorism charges, disappeared in Afghanistan months ago, his relatives and friends said.
Police in the German city of Cologne say a Tajik national detained in late December on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on Cologne Cathedral is wanted in Austria and will be sent there to face charges.
During Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's lengthy annual address to parliament, the audience erupted in applause over 120 times, clapping for a total of some 22 minutes. For some Tajiks, the display of support seemed extravagant, even in the context of Rahmon's decades-long authoritarian regime.
A jailed member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) died in a prison outside Dushanbe late on January 4, his family said.
The chairman of a farm in the Tajik district of Dosti was sentenced to five years in prison for "cooperating" with Islah TV, a website close to the government opposition.
The trial of 14 people accused in the murder of Shohrat Ismattuloev, deputy chairman of Tajikistan’s Orienbank, has started.
The Tajik government has handed large tracts of land outside the capital to a private company in a murky deal, an RFE/RL investigation shows. The head of the company has been identified as an in-law of President Emomali Rahmon, whose family has long been accused of enriching itself.
Tajik opposition activist Bilol Qurbonaliev, who was deported from Germany for allegedly violating immigration rules, has been arrested in Dushanbe, his family said on December 22.
Many Tajik migrants workers and rights activists have accused Russian authorities of pressuring Central Asian workers to sign contracts to join Russian troops in Ukraine and -- if they refuse -- they face bogus criminal charges, beatings, and deportation.
The security chiefs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say the two Central Asian nations have preliminarily agreed on more than 90 percent of the border between the two former Soviet republics during negotiations held in Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Batken.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has urged Tajik President Emomali Rahmon "to immediately end" the repression of peaceful demonstrators, community leaders, journalists and activists in Tajikistan, as well as "all forms of transnational repression."
Officials from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say the two countries agreed on another 24 kilometers of the border between the two former Soviet republics after special talks on the issue were held over the past week.
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