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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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Counter Terrorism

Al-Qaida/Taliban-Linked Media Campaign Frames Islamic State Khurasan as Foreign, Tajik Group

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
October 24, 2023
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4 min

Ever since the Taliban seized power in Kabul two years ago, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has had a fractious relationship with its immediate...

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‘Egg Protest’ Revenge? Tajikistan Cuts Electricity to Family Homes of Exiled Activists

Posted byby Marie Corrie
October 22, 2023
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3 min

Tajikistan’s authoritarian government has been accused of using electricity as leverage against its political opponents after officials allegedly cut off power to the family...

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Counter Terrorism

Tajikistan: Terrorism, slander, corruption claims swirl in latest sign of elite infighting

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
September 8, 2023
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4 min

Early on September 6, the security services in Tajikistan issued a press release containing some apparently alarming news. The State Committee for National Security,...

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Internal Security

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: 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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Civil Society the Biggest Casualty of Crackdowns in Tajikistan And Uzbekistan

Posted byby Marie Corrie
May 30, 2023
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5 min

ALMATY — Tajikistan and Uzbekistan last year waged deadly crackdowns to crush protests that erupted in the autonomous regions of the Central Asian nations....

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Tajikistan tyranny triggers new wave of refugees in Europe

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
May 23, 2023
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4 min

The Pamir Gate triggers a geopolitical crisis. For the Pamiri ethnic minority and the inhabitants of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan,...