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Fear for safety of Tajikistani asylum seeker: Ismon Azimov

On 3 December Tajikistani asylum seeker Ismon Azimov was abducted from the Centre for temporary placement of immigrants in the Russian region of Tver. It is feared that he could have been illegally transferred to Tajikistan where he will be at risk of torture and an unfair trial. At around 8 pm on 3 December five unidentified men, two of them wearing police uniforms, arrived at the Centre for...

09.12.2013 - 22:28
Prosecutor asks 12.5 years for police officer accused of torturing teen boy

A prosecutor in the trial of Mashraf Aliyev, a former officer from the police station in the Yovon district of Khatlon province, who is accused of torturing teen boy, asked a court in the Yovon district on December 2 to sentence Mashraf Aliyev to 12½ years in jail.  A verdict is expected within the next few days. We will recall that the Yovon district court on September 6, 2012 found...

04.12.2013 - 15:32
Tajikistan: Opposition member ill-treated in detention

A member of the Islamic Renaissance Party has been arbitrarily detained in Tajikistan since 30 October. His family, who still do not have access to him, claim that he has been tortured and ill-treated while in detention, has restricted access to the family’s lawyers and that his medical treatment is inadequate. Thirty-four-year-old agricultural worker and member of the opposition Islamic...

29.11.2013 - 21:23
Tajikistan: ICJ warns of risk to independence of lawyers

Following its mission to Tajikistan on 10-13 November, the ICJ called on the Tajikistan authorities to reconsider provisions of a draft law which could undermine the independence of the legal profession. The draft Law on Lawyers’ Activities and Advokatura would allow the Ministry of Justice a significant role in regulating entry to the profession. In particular, the Qualification Commission...

20.11.2013 - 09:27
Tajikistan: Crackdown on opposition ahead of presidential elections

On 2 November 2013, Umeddzhon Tojiev, an activist from one of Tajikistan’s major opposition parties allegedly threw himself out of the third floor window of a police station following interrogation. He had been arrested on 30 October for ’insubordination to police officers’.  The incident took place just four days before the presidential elections, due to be held on Wednesday, 6 November...

05.11.2013 - 21:52
Exhbition raises awareness of torture victims

AMNESTY International is holding an exhibition in York to raise awareness of torture victims around the world. The exhibition is being staged by the organisation’s York and Kirkbymoorside groups during office hours at the Friends’ Meeting House in Friargate until Thursday, October 31. A spokesman said it was giving the public the chance to see stories of bravery in photographs, as well as case...

04.11.2013 - 11:29
IRP activist in Isfara allegedly tries to escape from police station by jumping off the third floor

The 34-year-old activist of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) from Isfara, Umedjon Tojiyev has allegedly tried to escape from local police station by jumping off the third floor. The Interior Ministry’s press center reports Tojiyev was detained on October 30 for noncompliance with demand of police officers and sentenced to 10 days in prison. Following testimonies from detained Z. Ibrohimov...

04.11.2013 - 10:41
Tajik Inmates Sentenced Over Alleged Prison-Torture Videos

Two prison inmates in Tajikistan's northern Sughd Province have received additional sentences in a case linked to allegations of prison torture. Sadriddin Toshev and Sunattulo Rizoev were found guilty of distributing false information and sentenced to seven and nine years in jail, respectively, on October 18. Toshev and Rizoev are accused of distributing videos showing injuries sustained by...

18.10.2013 - 21:43
Tajik parliament votes to improve prison conditions for convicts serving life sentences

Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) has endorsed the bill requiring amendments to the Criminal Penalty Execution Code of Tajikistan. A regular sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the fourth convocation was held in Dushanbe on October 10. Presenting the bill, the Minister of Justice Rustam Mengliyev said the amendments proposed to the Criminal Penalty...

10.10.2013 - 19:24
11th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Join the campaign!

Geneva, 10th October 2013. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the principal global civil society coalition against torture, calls on this 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty for a universal abolition of the death penalty. Today, we continue to assist to a worldwide movement towards the abolition of the death penalty. A large majority of States have already abolished the...

10.10.2013 - 18:29

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