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Tajiks donate clothes and cash to help a homeless woman who was so desperate she tried to put her six children into an orphanage.
The United States is concerned over the situation of human rights in Tajikistan, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia and Press and Public Diplomacy has said.
Seventeen Tajiks have gone on trial on suspicion of involvement in the killing of four foreign cyclists on a southern mountain road in late July.
Several Orthodox churches in former Soviet republics have followed the steps of the Russian Orthodox Church and cut their ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
The chief spokesman for Tajikistan's Customs Services press service died following an attack just days after his appointment to the post, medical sources and relatives say.
Seven members of a single Tajik family were wiped out when their truck plunged off a high cliff in the northern district of Lakhsh, police say.
Belarusian authorities have detained a Tajik former soccer player who was prevented from playing in Tajikistan several years ago because he wore a beard, his wife has told RFE/RL.
Video has emerged of a scuffle that broke out this week between Tajik government officials and opposition activists outside one of Europe's biggest annual human rights and democracy conferences.
The mother of a Tajik man who is suspected of carrying out a fatal attack against a group of foreign cyclists in the Central Asian country in July poured gasoline on herself outside the Dushanbe office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
He's compassionate and has telepathic powers. Meet Tajikistan's new superhero, Mercy-Man.
Authorities say a Russian airliner was forced to return to a Moscow airport after a Tajik man fought with the flight crew and threatened to blow up the plane.
Tajik journalist Khairullo Mirsaidov says he's "determined" to continue writing about his country's problems after being released from prison.
Afghan officials said unknown aircraft hit Taliban forces in a province along the border with Tajikistan, killing eight militants, a day after a shooting that left at least two Tajiks killed.
Two people were killed and one wounded in a shooting along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan.
A lawyer and opposition politician in Tajikistan has been released from prison after serving nearly four years on bribe-taking charges that he and his supporters have called politically motivated.
Tajik authorities released prominent journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov from detention after a court converted his 12-year prison sentence to a fine and community service in a case widely seen as politically motivated.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has visited Uzbekistan for talks seen as an important step toward mending a tense and complicated bilateral relationship.
A 30-year-old Tajik man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of insulting the country’s president and calling for the overthrow of the government on social media posts, family and a court official say.
Tajik authorities say they have arrested five men in connection with the July 29 attack that killed four foreign cyclists, as Dushanbe widened its investigation.
The mother of the alleged ringleader behind July's deadly attack on foreign cyclists in Tajikistan says her son was influenced by a cleric who is now on Tajikistan's most-wanted list.
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