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Umed Bobozoda, Tajikistan’s Human Rights Commissioner, has voiced serious concerns over the mistreatment of Tajik migrants in Russia.
The Tajik government has mobilized thousands of state workers to go door-to-door to lecture youth against the dangers of joining extremist groups. Dozens of Tajik nationals have been linked to terrorist attacks and plots in Russia, the United States, the European Union, and Iran this year.
Tajik officials have backed off comments that the energy situation in the country is improving, admitting that electricity rationing is being introduced a month earlier than usual this year.
Zubaidulloh Roziq, an 80-year-old former member of Tajikistan's banned Islamic Renaissance Party, has been moved from a prison hospital back to jail despite his ill-health and advanced age, relatives say.
Tajik police have described the recent stabbing attack on the country’s state-backed Islamic leader an act of “hooliganism.” But some critics say the assault on Saidmukarram Saidqodirzoda may be linked to his role in aiding the state in “violating people’s religious freedoms.”
Grand Mufti of Tajikistan Saidmukarram Abdulkodirzoda was attacked in the capital city, Dushanbe, on September 11 in the city’s central mosque.
The Tajik Embassy in Moscow on September 10 warned citizens against traveling to Russia for the time-being, citing beefed-up security measures and increased document checks by Russian border guards.
A court in Uzbekistan's southeastern city of Samarkand on September 10 sentenced local blogger Bahodur Hasanov to 10 days in jail on charges of hooliganism and insulting a person.
A court in Russia in early August sentenced Madina Bondarenko, the Ossetian wife of a notorious recruiter for the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Tajikistan, to 11 years in prison on a charge of being a member of a terrorist group, one of her relatives told RFE/RL on September 3.
Several sources close to law enforcement in Tajikistan told RFE/RL over the weekend that police in the Central Asian nation's southern city of Kulob had arrested noted journalist Ahmad Ibrohim on bribe-related charges.
Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon has confirmed recent reports by RFE/RL's Tajik Service about a series of arrests of noted public figures and politicians.
Tajikistan's First Deputy Interior Minister Abdurahmon Alamshozoda has confirmed reports by RFE/RL's Tajik Service that 27 residents of the Yazgulom community in the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) have been arrested.
An imprisoned member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) has been transferred to a prison infirmary.
A deal allowing Tajik and Iranian citizens to travel between the two nations without visas for up to 90 days per year -- with the first visit limited to 30 days -- will take effect on August 10, the Tajik Foreign Ministry said on August 6.
Thousands of Tajiks were deported from Russia in the first half of the year, with the exodus accelerating after authorities began carrying out sweeping checks of immigrants in the aftermath of a March terror attack by gunmen, four of whom are suspects from Tajikistan.
Sulaimon Jobirov, a former member of Tajikistan's Group 24 opposition movement, was sentenced to six years in prison on a charge of cooperating with a banned organization.
Asliddin Sharipov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on unspecified charges, a close associate told RFE/RL on July 29.
A noted member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) Muhammadali Faizmuhammad died in a prison infirmary at the age of 65, his relatives told RFE/RL on July 26.
While most Tajik opposition leaders have left the country amid a brutal government crackdown, Shokirjon Hakimov remained in Dushanbe and continued to openly criticize the authorities. Earlier this month, Tajikistan arrested the opposition politician and silenced a rare voice of dissent.
Some 3,400 Tajik migrant workers have not been allowed to enter Russia and turned back to Tajikistan from Russian airports over the last six months, the director of the Tajik Civil Aviation Agency, Habibullo Nazarzoda, told reporters on July 24.
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