In a new clampdown on independent media, Tajikistan has jailed a veteran journalist for criticizing regional officials, while another reporter faces 17 years in prison on undisclosed charges.
Leo Tolstoy’s maxim ‘all happy families are alike, unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way’ is certainly applying to Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon’s extended clan these days. Familial ...
The riot, which was designed as an attempt to escape, resulted in the deaths of at least five prisoners, while three staff members, including the prison warden, were injured. This prison, located 20 ...
Tajikistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a meeting between Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin and Tomas Niklasson, the European Union’s Special Representative for Afghanistan.
the Taliban appear to ask Russia not to allow “the activity of enemies of the new Islamic rule from the territory of Tajikistan” – a reference to former Afghan government officials who fled ...
Some have lived in the Central Asian country for decades, while others fled there after the Western-backed Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized power in 2021. Most of Tajikistan’s ...