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"Human rights defence means for me activities aimed at the protection of human rights and freedoms from the arbitrariness of law enforcement. How did I get involved in the human rights defence? As a student of the Law Faculty of Tajik National University, I did an internship in  courts of the country. There I first heard defendants in court telling  that at the time of the arrest and...

“There is such a profession and field of activity, upon which human destinies depend largely.  A representative of one of these professions is a practicing lawyer. My profession allows providing help to people who need it. The lawyer's job also could be called human rights activity. First of all, I wish to point out that the practicing lawyer and human rights defender are people with a...

"I like my profession, because I can help a person in need of it. Communication with different people and desire to help and solve their vital tasks gives me a high moral satisfaction. People need an “emergency” aid. The main thing is to believe in own strength, knowledge. My professional choice of becoming an advocate was made early; all family members are lawyers. And by the age of 17 years...

Mahmurod Odinaev, father of one of 50 prisoners, who were transferred from Dushanbe and Vahdat penal colonies to a penal colony in the northern city of Khujand, says his son’s health conditions have deteriorated but the Khujand penal colony administration have taken no measures to help him. “Recently, I talked to my son, Sunatullo Rizoyev, by phone and he said that internal bleeding has...