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The Coalition of Civil Society against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan holds a series of events devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Human Rights Day. Every day, over the next 12 days starting from December 3, on our website (notorturetj.org) and our pages on social networks we will quote one of the articles of the Universal...

Sughd military prosecutor Abduqodir Nourov gave an extraordinary press conference in Khujand yesterday over the recent deadly hazing incident that took place on June 7 in military unit 04080 deployed in the city of Konibodom. According to him, the Sughd military prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the death of Private Firdavs Rahmatov. “Investigation has established that...

The 34-year-old activist of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) in the northern city of Isfara, Umedjon Tojiyev, has remained without defense lawyer. Ms. Fayzinisso Vohidova, who was Tojiyev’s defense lawyer, told Asia-Plus on November 5 that she is forced to refuse to represent Umedjon Tojiyev, because under the country’s legislation one lawyer cannot represent two or more persons in a criminal...

On 22 May, in Dushanbe I met the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, and of Justice, the Prosecutor General, the Ombudsman, and representatives of civil society and the international community. I appreciated the awareness of top government officials of the challenges and shortcomings in the area of human rights. They recognised that there is a long way to go and that human rights and the...