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Jailed Tajik businessman Zayd Saidov is facing new embezzlement charges.
Tajik authorities say they are looking into gunfights that sparked antigovernment protests in the remote Gorno-Badakhshan Province. The government blames the violence on local drug dealers. Protest leaders, however, say the latest crisis has much deeper roots in the region that was the scene of deadly clashes in 2012.
A prominent Tajik mullah's criticism of those heading to Syria to fight alongside Islamist rebels has prompted an angry response from a purported Tajik jihadist.
Protesters in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region have left the central square in the regional capital, Khorugh, after civil society activists and authorities agreed on May 25 to investigate last week's deadly shooting followed by violent protests.
Hundreds of protesters in Tajikistan's volatile eastern province of Gorno-Badakhshan spent the night in tents in the center of the regional capital, Khorugh, continuing their effort to convince the government to meet their demands.
The Dushanbe mayor's office is defending a decision to install CCTV cameras in the offices of all civil servants in the Tajik capital.
Hundreds of protesters rallied in Tajikistan’s volatile eastern province of Gorno-Badakhshan on May 22, a day after deadly clashes in the regional capital Khorugh left several people dead.
The Tajik parliament has introduced a new clause into the country's Criminal Code, according to which Tajiks will face criminal persecution for taking part in military conflicts abroad.
Police say one suspected member of a criminal group was killed and two of his associates were injured during a security operation in Tajikistan’s eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan.
The Tajik Army is now admitting that a young conscript who died last month in northern Khujand Province was beaten to death.
Tajik prison guards say they shot an Iranian citizen after he tried to escape from a penal colony in the town of Yavan, 54 kilometers south of the capital, Dushanbe.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has promoted family members to top posts in the Foreign Ministry.
Another round of Kyrgyz-Tajik talks on border demarcation have started in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
A Tajik policeman from the northern region of Sughd has been arrested for propagating a strict Salafi form of Islam banned in Tajikistan.
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is continuing a two-day visit to Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon have signed several agreements after holding talks in Dushanbe on May 5.
The Dushanbe City Court has upheld a ruling against independent journalist Olga Tutubalina.
A Tajik opposition lawmaker says he was beaten in the country's southeastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan.
A well-known Tajik businessman and martial arts expert has been killed in Moscow.
The editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper in Tajikistan's southern city of Kulob says his periodical has been suspended by authorities due to political reasons.
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