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US Senator to Tajikistan President: End Your Government’s Use of Transnational Repression

Posted byby Marie Corrie
December 6, 2023
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2 min

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently sent a letter to the President of Tajikistan, Emomali...

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The Tyranny of Fear in Tajikistan

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 16, 2023
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8 min

On July 4, a group of 10 U.N. experts – including special rapporteurs whose mandates cover human rights defenders, religious freedom, judges and lawyers,...

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Tajikistan Closes Down Five NGOs In Gorno-Badakhshan

Posted byby Marie Corrie
August 9, 2023
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1 min

Five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region have been closed down over the past six months due to what authorities claim are links...

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Amid Crackdown in Restive Region, Tajikistan Targets Properties Linked to Aga Khan

Posted byby Marie Corrie
July 26, 2023
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4 min

Officials in Tajikistan have taken over several major properties, including a hotel, a lycee, and a city park that are linked to the influential...

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Tajikistan’s Pamiris: Persecuted, disappeared, and forgotten by the world

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
July 21, 2023
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4 min

Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of being locked up or...

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Tajikistan: U.N experts deplore criminal proceedings against human rights defenders

Posted byby Marie Corrie
July 4, 2023
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2 min

GENEVA (4 July 2023) – UN experts* today urged Tajikistan to show genuine commitment to improving the situation of human rights defenders in the...

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Tajikistan Tyranny Against Martyrs and Humanity

Posted byby Michael Becker
May 5, 2023
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3 min

The month of May holds dark memories for the Pamiris in Tajikistan Berlin (2/5) — For the Pamiri ethnic minority and residents of the Gorno...

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Tajikistan Under Rahmon’s Rule

Posted byby Marie Corrie
April 8, 2023
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3 min

Declared itself an independent sovereign nation on 9 September 1991 from the Soviet Union, today Tajikistan is a constitutional republic ruled by President Emomali...

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Why Tajikistan’s Pamiris don’t trust their government

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
February 10, 2023
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5 min

For 30 years, eastern Tajikistan has been either on the edge of unrest or the scene of fighting. Fighting broke out again on May 16....