On 2 November 2013, Umeddzhon Tojiev, an activist from one of Tajikistan’s major opposition parties allegedly threw himself out of the third floor window of a police station following interrogation. He had been arrested on 30 October for ’insubordination to police officers’. The incident took place just four days before the presidential elections, due to be held on Wednesday, 6 November...
Freedom from Torture
Civil Society Coalition against Torture and impunity in Tajikistan