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Tajik human rights organizations have urged the government to thoroughly investigate the recent death of a convict.  Relatives of Hamza Ikromzoda, who died in a detention center in Dushanbe in mid-September, say his body carried traces of torture, including burns caused by a heated iron. Ikromzoda’s relatives on October 1 handed the Prosecutor-General’s Office a statement by eight...

The Prosecutor-General’s Office has promised to thoroughly investigate the death of Hamza Ikromzoda, who died in a penal colony. “We will launch a thorough investigation into the death of Hamza Ikromzoda and those guilty will be brought to justice,” Rahmatullo Kholov, a prosecutor form the Directorate for Overseeing Correctional Facilities, Prosecutor-General’s Office said on September 29...

The Department for Correctional Works at the Ministry of Justice has commented on the death of the 27-year-old inmate Hamza Ikromzoda. Bahrom Abdulhaqov, the deputy head of the Department for Correctional Works, says Ikromzoda had been held in the penalty isolation ward of penal colony YaS No 3/1. Earlier some media sources reported that Ikromzoda had been held in the central detention...

Ms. Pokizamo Iqbolshoyeva, the mother Sherik Karamkhudoyev, the head of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Khorog, has lodged complaint to President’s Executive Office, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Office of Human Right Ombudsman of the Republic of Tajikistan about the use of torture against her son. In her letter, Ms. Iqbolshoyeva notes that she has applied to them...