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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
Tajikistan: Crackdown on opposition ahead of presidential elections

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...

05.11.2013 - 21:52
Exhbition raises awareness of torture victims

AMNESTY International is holding an exhibition in York to raise awareness of torture victims around the world. The exhibition is being staged by the organisation’s York and Kirkbymoorside groups during office hours at the Friends’ Meeting House in Friargate until Thursday, October 31. A spokesman said it was giving the public the chance to see stories of bravery in photographs, as well as case...

04.11.2013 - 11:29
IRP activist in Isfara allegedly tries to escape from police station by jumping off the third floor

The 34-year-old activist of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) from Isfara, Umedjon Tojiyev has allegedly tried to escape from local police station by jumping off the third floor. The Interior Ministry’s press center reports Tojiyev was detained on October 30 for noncompliance with demand of police officers and sentenced to 10 days in prison. Following testimonies from detained Z. Ibrohimov...

04.11.2013 - 10:41
Tajik Inmates Sentenced Over Alleged Prison-Torture Videos

Two prison inmates in Tajikistan's northern Sughd Province have received additional sentences in a case linked to allegations of prison torture. Sadriddin Toshev and Sunattulo Rizoev were found guilty of distributing false information and sentenced to seven and nine years in jail, respectively, on October 18. Toshev and Rizoev are accused of distributing videos showing injuries sustained by...

18.10.2013 - 21:43
Tajik parliament votes to improve prison conditions for convicts serving life sentences

Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) has endorsed the bill requiring amendments to the Criminal Penalty Execution Code of Tajikistan. A regular sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the fourth convocation was held in Dushanbe on October 10. Presenting the bill, the Minister of Justice Rustam Mengliyev said the amendments proposed to the Criminal Penalty...

10.10.2013 - 19:24
11th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Join the campaign!

Geneva, 10th October 2013. The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the principal global civil society coalition against torture, calls on this 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty for a universal abolition of the death penalty. Today, we continue to assist to a worldwide movement towards the abolition of the death penalty. A large majority of States have already abolished the...

10.10.2013 - 18:29
Detainees at risk of torture in Tajikistan

Since July Amnesty International has received reports that at least four detainees, including a minor, have been subjected to further ill-treatment at the hands of law enforcement, security and prison officials. They had previously tried to report the ill-treatment they have suffered or witnessed. According to credible reports by Tajikistani NGOs and lawyers, two persons (who cannot be named...

01.10.2013 - 23:42
Retrial of case of police officers convicted of torturing teen starts in Khatlon

Retrial of the case of Mashraf Aliyev, former officer from the police station in the Yovon district, who was convicted in September last year of torturing teen boy, has begun in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of Khatlon province. The Qurghon Teppa city court began reconsideration of the case on September 24. We will recall that the Yovon district court on September 6, 2012 found Mashraf Aliyev...

25.09.2013 - 19:47
Cooperation of National Human Rights Institutions with the Civil Society

The Civil Society Seminar EU - Tajikistan on "Cooperation of National Human Rights Institutions and Civil Society" was held on September 17-18 in the conference hall of Hyatt Regency Dushanbe. Organized by the Delegation of the European Union in the Republic of Tajikistan in cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, the two day workshop served as an open forum to...

19.09.2013 - 11:26

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