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Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced a former official from the banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) to nine years in prison after convicting him on charges of terrorism and religious extremism.
Tajikistan's parliament has legalized blocking the Internet and telephonesystem during "counterterrorism operations" in the Central Asian nation.
The Tajik mother of a baby who died while in Russian custody says she was hastily deported in order to prevent proper investigations into her son's death.
The mother of a baby Tajik boy who died while in Russian custody is being deported to Tajikistan.
Tajik officials have arrested a Russian soldier in connection with the killing of a woman at a Russian military base in Tajikistan.
Two officers from a military commission that is responsible for conscription in Tajikistan have been stabbed to death in the capital, Dushanbe.
Online startup vows to feed Tajiks' hunger for sex toys -- and fast -- but will remain in the shadows.
Tajik prosecutors say 23 top officials of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (HNIT) have been arrested, many on suspicion of leading a deadly mutiny by a serving deputy defense minister in early September.
The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) has been officially branded as a terrorist organization.
The lawyer of Tajikistan's embattled Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) has been detained in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
The exiled leader of a recently banned Islamic political party in Tajikistan has rejected officials' accusations that he ordered a deadly mutiny last week by a serving deputy defense minister.
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry has confirmed that mutinous former Deputy Defense Minister Abduhalim Nazarzoda has been killed along with 10 of his supporters during a battle in the Romit Gorge area to the east of Dushanbe.
The first deputy chairman of Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), Saidumar Husaini, has been detained in Dushanbe.
Clashes have been reported in Tajikistan between government forces and fighters loyal to a former deputy defense minister blamed by Dushanbe for recent attacks.
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev have met in Dushanbe a day before a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Tajikistan's capital.
Authorities in Tajikistan have charged an ousted deputy defense minister who has been on the run since an eruption of deadly violence last week.
Authorities in Tajikistan say they have detained 14 more followers of an ousted deputy defense minister who has been on the run since an eruption of deadly violence on September 4.
Tajikistan's security forces are searching for an ousted former deputy minister and his followers, two days after clashes in and around Dushanbe killed 22 people, including nine police and 13 militants.
Police in Tajikistan say security forces have closed in on a former defense official who is believed to be hiding in a mountainous area following deadly attacks in and around the capital, Dushanbe.
Tajik officials say eight police officers and nine alleged assailants have been killed in attacks in and around the capital, in attacks the government blamed on a deputy defense minister.
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