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Tajikistan’s penitentiary system head comments on demand by prisoners’ parents for his resignation

Tajikistan’s penitentiary system head, Izatullo Sharipov, has commented on demand by prisoners’ parents for his resignation. According him, the president has appointed him to this position and only the president has the right to relieve him of his position. “Those who are guilty must be punished.  We do not rule out that there are shortcomings in our system, but we are seeking to...

09.04.2013 - 10:59
Tajikistan: Government Critic Missing for Two Weeks

Early on March 15, a 58-year-old man put on his tracksuit and left home in Qurghonteppa, a 90-minute drive south of Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital. Morning exercise was a regular part of his routine, says Amnesty International. But on this morning the man, a prominent critic of President Imomali Rakhmon, did not return. Friends and political allies fear Salimboy Shamsiddinov was kidnapped...

03.04.2013 - 14:51
Case of police officer convicted of torturing teen remitted for further examination

The case of Mashraf Aliyev, a former officer from the police station in the Yovon district, who was convicted of torturing teen boy has been remitted for further examination, Sergey Romanov, director of the Dushanbe-based Independent Human Rights Center, told Asia-Plus. According to him, the verdict against Aliyev has been recalled and the case has been remitted for further examination...

01.04.2013 - 14:05
The Ministry of Interior will pay compensation to Sangov's widow

The court ordered the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan to pay compensation to the widow of Safarali Sangov resident of Dushanbe, who according to his family, died as a result of beatings and torture at the police station. This unprecedented case in the country’s court practice was reported to NoTorture.Tj by the victim’s lawyer Gulchekhra Holmatova, whose services were donated by the Bureau of...

15.03.2013 - 14:30
Head of the Tajik prisons was demanded to resign for torture

According to the Radio Ozodi (the local office of “Radio Liberty”) Relatives of the prisoners, victims of torture demanded for the resignation of the Deputy Minister of Justice, Head of the Main Directorate for Punishment Implementation Izzatullo Sharipov. The letter with their demands was sent to the President Emomali Rahmon with copies to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake and...

13.03.2013 - 14:22
UAE adjourns Quvvatov extradition case hearing until April 10

The authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have reportedly adjourned Umarali Quvvatov extradition case hearing until April 10. “Umarali Quvvatov extradition case hearing was adjourned on March 10 until April 10,” Nikolai Nikolayev, Umarali Quvvatov’s defense lawyer, told Asia-Plus in an interview. Meanwhile, the Tajik authorities insist on a speedy extradition of Umarali Quvvatov,...

12.03.2013 - 21:23
Russian counternarcotics agency accuses Tajik MFA of protecting drug dealer

Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) claims that Tajik MFA sent a note to the UAE authorities with request not to extradite the drug dealer Atobek Gulmamadov to Russia. One of Russian leading TV channels reports that according to FSKN, Tajik Foreign Ministry allegedly stood up for the drug dealer that had been detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and extradited to Russia. In...

07.03.2013 - 17:32
Ukraine: Authorities must not return former Tajik Prime Minister to torture in Tajikistan

Amnesty International has written to the Ukrainian authorities urging them not to return former Prime Minister Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov to Tajikistan where he would be at risk of torture and other grave human rights violations. Amnesty International is also urging the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov. Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov was arrested in Borispol...

04.03.2013 - 23:49
Ukraine: Authorities must not return former Tajik Prime Minister to torture in Tajikistan

Amnesty International has written to the Ukrainian authorities urging them not to return former Prime Minister Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov to Tajikistan where he would be at risk of torture and other grave human rights violations. Amnesty International is also urging the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov. Abdulmalik Abdullodzhonov was arrested in Borispol...

04.03.2013 - 23:49
Policeman charged with negligence leading to detainee’s death to serve two-year term

Abdurahmon Dodov, a former investigator with the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district, has been charged with negligence that led to the death of detainee and been sentenced to two years in a settlement-colony (the prototype for the ‘open prisons’ that exist in many Western European countries). The Shohmansour district court passed the sentence on Abdurahmon Dodov on February 12...

12.02.2013 - 19:21

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