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Two rights groups have condemned Tajikistan's state communications service for blocking Tajik users' access to social-network website Facebook and several independent news sites.
Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, has discussed with Tajik leaders possible transit routes for the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
A Tajik businessman arrested in Moscow in 2010 on a warrant from Tajikistan has not been released from custody after his term of pretrial detention expired.
A court in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province has given jail sentences to seven members of the banned Islamist Jamoat-i Tabligh organization.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry says two Iranian drivers, blocked from leaving Tajikistan for nearly a year, have now left the country.
A transport helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing all four people on board.
Tajikistan's railroad company has suspended trains traveling from the capital, Dushanbe, to the northern city of Khujand.
A new law on official languages has gone into effect in Tajikistan that removes Russian as the "language for interethnic communication," RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
