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A group of seven international rights organizations have called on Dushanbe for the second time since April to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, who is serving 16 years in prison for his human rights activities in Tajikistan.
Increases in the cost of gas after an export ban by Kazakhstan have left Tajik taxi drivers short of clients, with the threat of a spike in the cost of living in Central Asia’s poorest country.
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee has urged the Tajik authorities to disclose the exact whereabouts of Asliddin Sharifov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, who was extradited from Russia in early October.
Tajik authorities have cut the electricity to the homes of several self-exiled opposition activists’ parents, their families said, amid renewed government pressure on its political opponents.
Tajik opposition member Farhod Odinaev said the government has cut off electricity supplies to his mother's house as part of a pressure campaign officials are waging against regime critics.
The Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of common jurisdictions said on October 11 that the Russian capital's Lefortovo district court had ruled a day earlier to send a Tajik national to pretrial detention for at least two months on an espionage charge.
Oishamo Abdulloeva, the mother of self-exiled opposition leader Sharofiddin Gadoev, told RFE/RL on October 12 that authorities cut off electricity to her house a day earlier over her son's political activities in Europe.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a former activist of the Group 24 opposition movement, to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of making public calls to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order.
Parvina Rahmonova, the fifth daughter of authoritarian Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, has a virtually nonexistent public footprint. But thanks in part to millions in government contracts, a pharmaceutical company she owns has become a dominant force in the country’s health-care sector.
Much of Tajikistan has been faced with intermittent power cuts in recent weeks that leave rural households and businesses without electricity for several hours. Authorities blame the blackouts on repair work but don't say how long it will last.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and five Central Asian nations' leaders have discussed cooperation and ties as Berlin looks to gain influence in the region that has been traditionally a sphere of dominance for Russia.
A military court in Tajikistan has sentenced a sergeant to five years in prison for shaving letters on the heads of nine newly recruited soldiers to spell the name of a city in the country's north.
U.S. President Joe Biden emphasized the "territorial integrity" of five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- after meeting with the countries' leaders in New York late on September 19 amid the United Nations General Assembly
Turkish media reports say a Turkish citizen who had resided in Tajikistan for 28 years was abducted by unknown individuals in Dushanbe on September 16 and forcibly taken to Turkey, where he is wanted for alleged links with the Gulen movement that is banned in Turkey.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Kyrgyz ambassador to Dushanbe over a statement by the chairman of Kyrgyzstan's State Committee of National Security regarding the disputed border between the Central Asian neighbors.
Calls to share scarce water resources and cooperate on security issues featured heavily in a two-day summit of the five Central Asian leaders that wrapped up in Dushanbe on September 15.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has joined as an "honored guest" a gathering of leaders of the five Central Asian countries.
A court in Moscow has issued a life sentence to Aleksandr Syomin for the 2018 molestation and murder of Huvaido Tillozoda, a 5-year-old ethnic Tajik girl, a case that caused a public outcry in Tajikistan.
Aziza Haidarova, a former aide to imprisoned Judge Rustam Saidahmadzoda, told RFE/RL on September 12 that she had been released from prison through an amnesty after she covered all "financial damages" caused by her activities after being found guilty of fraud, embezzlement, and forgery.
In a joint statement on September 11, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Watch, Freedom for Eurasia, and Freedom Now demanded Tajik authorities drop "trumped-up" charges against Nizomiddin Nasriddinov and immediately release the political activist.
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