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1. Subject of Overview and analysis: Subject of analysis were instructions and draft legal regulations on improvement of mental healthcare in Tajikistan, elaborated and drafted by the Ministry of Healthcare of Republic of Tajikistan. The draft legal regulations contains 17 instructions regarding organizational aspects of mental healthcare services in the Republic of Tajikistan. Namely 1...

08.01.2019 - 19:14

Dedicated to the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, exhibitions of torture victim photos were held in three cities of Tajikistan – Dushanbe (Dushanbe-Plaza Center), Khujand (head office of Arvin Limited Liability Company) and Bokhtar (Maftouna Hotel) – on June 26.  Eighteen stories about victims of torture were presented at those exhibitions.      An...

29.06.2018 - 15:28

We were asked by the PO Human Rights Center to review the Criminal Punishment Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (hereinafter “Punishment Code”) and to assess its consistency with international standards contained in the United Nations’ Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or Istanbul Protocol (available...

08.01.2018 - 21:07

On 23 September 2016, a briefing to discuss the prevention of torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was organized at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw. The briefing was held within the framework of the project “Action for Freedom from Torture in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan“, which is implemented by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), International...

06.10.2016 - 13:49

The fall of Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 have become events which required the OSCE member-states to re-consider the necessary steps on developing new mechanisms to maintain security in the OSCE region. Twenty years ago, the Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security entered into force, which was adapted in 1994 in the OSCE Budapest Summit....

19.01.2015 - 19:47

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Tajikistan is an authoritarian state that President Emomali Rahmon and his supporters, drawn mainly from one region of the country, dominated politically. The constitution provides for a multi-party political system, but the government obstructed political pluralism. The November 6 presidential election lacked pluralism, genuine choice, and did not meet international...

28.02.2014 - 18:56

In the past few years mobiles were also helpful in bringing lots of other irregularities to the attention of the public in Tajikistan. Similar cases were reported in other former Soviet republics, like Georgia. One of such cases was about widespread torture in prisons in Tajikistan. On September 20, 2012, an inmate of one of the prisons in Dushanbe, Hamzeh Ikramzadeh, died in suspicious...

24.02.2014 - 13:35

Some 5,000 people turned out in the northern Tajik town of Chorkuh on January 20 to pay their last respects to Umed Tojiev. The 34-year-old father of two passed away on January 19 in a prison hospital from what prison officials say was a heart attack. Many of the 5,000 mourners at his funeral believe Tojiev died of torture. Tojiev was detained on October 30 on charges of failure to obey police...

23.01.2014 - 15:28

On the occasion of the re-election of Emomali Rahmon as the President of Tajikistan, Amnesty International urges him to put human rights firmly on the government’s agenda. The pervasive human rights violations in Tajikistan and the impunity for those who commit them must end. Laws, practices and customs which permit or encourage the perpetuation of human rights violations must change. As...

08.11.2013 - 21:16

International experts from “Physicians for Human Rights” international organization, Vincent Iacopino (USA) and Rusudan Beriashvili (Georgia), who visited Tajikistan last week with a team of other experts, dedicated their visit to training primary care physicians, psychologists, forensic medical examiners and lawyers on the issues of proper and efficient medical documentation of torture facts by...

24.09.2013 - 11:17

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