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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...

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....

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...

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...