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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.
Tajikistan said it killed three members of a "terrorist group" who had crossed into the country from neighboring Afghanistan.
The administration of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region on September 2 said border cooperation with Afghanistan has resumed in several districts on the orders of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon after three years of closures, a sign of a potential normalization of relations between two countries.
Russia has detained two suspects in the murder of the deputy chairman of Tajikistan’s Orienbank, Shohrat Ismattuloev, officials said.
Search and rescue teams in Tajikistan discovered the bodies of a woman and her newborn baby, along with two additional victims, on August 30, raising the official death toll from the flash floods that struck the country to 21.
Officials have raised the death toll from flash floods caused by heavy rainfall in Tajikistan to 17 people, as search and rescue operations continue.
At least 13 people were killed in Tajikistan following flash floods triggered by heavy rains, the Emergencies Committee of the Central Asian nation said on August 28.
The mayor of Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, and the chairman of the Tajik parliament's upper chamber, Rustam Emomali, and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister He Lifeng discussed bilateral ties in Beijing, Tajik authorities said on August 23.
Authoritarian Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has visited Gorno-Badakhshan, his first trip to the restive province since the army's crackdown on anti-government protests in May 2022. Residents spoke about what they think about the carefully organized trip, which took place amid tight security.
Pro-Kremlin political analyst Aleksandr Dugin, often seen as a spiritual influencer of President Vladimir Putin, has suggested that Tajik migrants consider embracing the Russian language and Orthodox faith
Tajik authorities have questioned the mother of prominent opposition politician Sharofiddin Gadoev who now lives in the Netherlands, and Gadoev has asserted it was done on Russia’s behalf.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of independent journalist Khurshed Fozilov after a Tajik court rejected his appeal of a seven-year prison sentence.
A court in Tajikistan has rejected an appeal filed by journalist Khurshed Fozilov against a seven-year prison sentence he was handed in May on charge of involvement in the activities of unspecified banned groups.
A former senior member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) died in prison on August 12, his relatives said, prompting opposition members to accuse authorities of inhuman treatment of political opponents.
Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda has said that two former top police officials were involved in the disappearance in June of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the Centra Asian country's leading banks.
Five NGOs in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region have been closed down over the past six months due to what authorities claim are links with local criminal groups amid ongoing tensions following protests last year against the regional authorities in the authoritarian Central Asian country.
Tajik activist Amriddin Holmurodov, who was detained in February 2022 in Slovakia, faces extradition to his home country, where he may be subjected to torture and violence, human rights activists say.
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after delimitation and demarcation work between the two Central Asian nations is fully accomplished.
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