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The trial of 14 people accused in the murder of Shohrat Ismattuloev, deputy chairman of Tajikistan’s Orienbank, has started.
The Tajik government has handed large tracts of land outside the capital to a private company in a murky deal, an RFE/RL investigation shows. The head of the company has been identified as an in-law of President Emomali Rahmon, whose family has long been accused of enriching itself.
Tajik opposition activist Bilol Qurbonaliev, who was deported from Germany for allegedly violating immigration rules, has been arrested in Dushanbe, his family said on December 22.
Many Tajik migrants workers and rights activists have accused Russian authorities of pressuring Central Asian workers to sign contracts to join Russian troops in Ukraine and -- if they refuse -- they face bogus criminal charges, beatings, and deportation.
The security chiefs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say the two Central Asian nations have preliminarily agreed on more than 90 percent of the border between the two former Soviet republics during negotiations held in Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Batken.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has urged Tajik President Emomali Rahmon "to immediately end" the repression of peaceful demonstrators, community leaders, journalists and activists in Tajikistan, as well as "all forms of transnational repression."
Officials from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan say the two countries agreed on another 24 kilometers of the border between the two former Soviet republics after special talks on the issue were held over the past week.
Asliddin Sharipov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, has been located in a detention center in Tajikistan’s northern city of Khujand weeks after he was extradited from Russia.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Dushanbe on November 8 to discuss bilateral ties, the Tajik presidential press service said.
A Tajik-American and two Russian-Canadians are being held in custody in New York for allegedly smuggling U.S. technology to the Russian military, violating Western sanctions. Some of the electronic components they allegedly shipped were found in Russian hardware in Ukraine, U.S. officials say.
A group of seven international rights organizations have called on Dushanbe for the second time since April to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov, who is serving 16 years in prison for his human rights activities in Tajikistan.
Increases in the cost of gas after an export ban by Kazakhstan have left Tajik taxi drivers short of clients, with the threat of a spike in the cost of living in Central Asia’s poorest country.
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee has urged the Tajik authorities to disclose the exact whereabouts of Asliddin Sharifov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, who was extradited from Russia in early October.
Tajik authorities have cut the electricity to the homes of several self-exiled opposition activists’ parents, their families said, amid renewed government pressure on its political opponents.
Tajik opposition member Farhod Odinaev said the government has cut off electricity supplies to his mother's house as part of a pressure campaign officials are waging against regime critics.
The Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of common jurisdictions said on October 11 that the Russian capital's Lefortovo district court had ruled a day earlier to send a Tajik national to pretrial detention for at least two months on an espionage charge.
Oishamo Abdulloeva, the mother of self-exiled opposition leader Sharofiddin Gadoev, told RFE/RL on October 12 that authorities cut off electricity to her house a day earlier over her son's political activities in Europe.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a former activist of the Group 24 opposition movement, to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of making public calls to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order.
Parvina Rahmonova, the fifth daughter of authoritarian Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, has a virtually nonexistent public footprint. But thanks in part to millions in government contracts, a pharmaceutical company she owns has become a dominant force in the country’s health-care sector.
Much of Tajikistan has been faced with intermittent power cuts in recent weeks that leave rural households and businesses without electricity for several hours. Authorities blame the blackouts on repair work but don't say how long it will last.
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