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Tajik Ombudsman calls on prosecutors to thoroughly investigate convict’s death

Tajik Ombudsman Zarif Alizoda has applied to the Prosecutor-General’s Office over the suspicion death of Hamza Ikromzoda in Dushanbe’s penal colony. According to the press center of the Ombudsman’s Office, Zarif Alizoda has expressed concern over the death of a convict in Dushanbe’s penal colony # 1 and called on the Prosecutor-General’s Office to thoroughly investigate the convict’s death...

23.10.2012 - 18:20
Tajik Torture Claims Put Prisons Under Scrutiny

The head of Tajikistan's penitentiary system has been forced on the defensive following some incendiary allegations concerning the use of torture in the country's prisons.  Just days after his department had to launch an investigation into the suspicious death of Hamza Ikromzoda in a detention center in mid-September, Izzatullo Sharifov found himself having to promise another...

17.10.2012 - 16:23
Serious violations of rights of persons charged with terrorism observed in Tajikistan

The problem of use of torture against detainees and inmates in Tajikistan was among topics of this year’s OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw. In a report released at the meeting, Sergey Romanov, director of the Independent Center for Human Rights, noted on September 26 that serious violations of rights of persons charged with terrorism such as illegal detention, use of...

28.09.2012 - 09:08

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