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Opposition party member dies in hospital

Umed Tojiev died in a hospital in Tajikistan on 19 January. He was reportedly subjected to torture and other ill-treatment so that he would confess to being involved with terrorism. Such treatment led him to jump out of the third floor window of the police station in Sughd region, breaking both his legs. Umed Tojiev died at the Central Hospital of Main Directorate of Implementation of...

23.01.2014 - 00:41
IRP activist dies in prison hospital

A member of the board of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Isfara, Umedjon Tojiyev, died on January 19 more than two months after falling from the third floor of the Isfara police station. IRP deputy head Mahmadali Hayit says they heard of that from Ms. Fayziniso Vohidova, human rights activist and lawyer from the northern Sughd province. Ms. Vohidova confirmed this in an...

20.01.2014 - 15:46
Disgraced Tajik businessman sentenced to 26 years in jail

The court sentenced disgraced Tajik businessman Zayd Saidov to 26 years in prison and confiscation of property on December 25. According to Saidov’s defense lawyer, Shuhrat Qudratov, the sentence followed his conviction of charges of bribe-taking, financial fraud, polygamy, rape and illegal deprivation of liberty. Zayd Saidov will serve his term in a high-security penal colony. The court's...

25.12.2013 - 17:49
Ikormzoda’s defense lawyer intends to send torture video to examination

Lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov, who represents the family of Hamza Ikromzoda, who died in detention center in Dushanbe in September 2012, says he intends to send photographs and videos showing injuries sustained by Ikromzoda after allegedly being tortured by prison guards, for examination to Russia. “On December 23, a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district thrown out an application by the family...

24.12.2013 - 20:49
Qurghon Teppa court upholds Yovon court’s verdict against police officer, accused of torturing teen

Тhe Qurghon Teppa city court that reconsidered criminal proceedings instituted against Mashraf Aliyev, a former officer from the police station in the Yovon district of Khatlon province, who is accused of torturing teen boy, sentenced him to seven years in jail on December 11. The sentence followed his conviction on the charge of torture (Article 143 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code). ...

12.12.2013 - 19:26
Secretary-General's Message on the Human Rights Day

10 December 2013 - Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly of the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  This year’s observance also marks 20 years since a bold step forward in the struggle to make rights a reality for all: the adoption by the World Conference on Human Rights of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Drawing...

10.12.2013 - 14:01
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

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