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Tajik President Urged To Take Measures Against Torture

Amnesty International has urged Tajik President Emomali Rahmon to take measures against widespread torture and other ill-treatment in Tajikistan's pretrial detention facilities.  In a statement issued on October 5, Rahmon's 60th birthday, the London-based rights watchdog said it sought to remind people about the plight of many victims of torture, "some of whom did not survive to celebrate...

09.10.2012 - 12:18
Tajikistan: President urged to address cases of numerous victims of torture

President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is celebrating his 60th birthday and State Language Day on 5 October and celebrations by governmental bodies and organisations are expected nationwide today. Amnesty International would like to remind people about the plight of many victims of torture – some of whom did not survive to celebrate their 30th birthday or who spend their birthdays behind bars...

05.10.2012 - 15:26
Tajik Rights Activists Demand Impartial Probe Into Convict's Death

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...

02.10.2012 - 18:34
Chief of the Department for Correctional Works promises to fire head of penal colony # 1

Izzatullo Sharifov, the chief of the Department for Correctional Works at the Ministry of Justice, has promised to fire the head of penal colony YaS No 3/1 irrespective of the results of the forensic medical examination. We will recall that inmate of penal colony YaS No 3/1 – 27-year-old Hamza Ikromzoda – died in Dushanbe’s penal colony YaS No 3/1 on September 20.  Ikromzoda’s body was...

30.09.2012 - 10:15
Tajik chief prosecutor’s office promises to thoroughly investigate inmate’s death

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...

29.09.2012 - 19:59
NGO Coalition against Torture Expresses Its Concern over Death of Hamzali Ikromov

A coalition of non-governmental organizations against torture in Tajikistan expresses its grave concern over the death of 27-year old Hamzali Ikromov, who died on September 20, 2012 in the prison of Dushanbe, where he was serving a sentence for previous offense. "According to the relatives of the deceased, the body of Ikramov has visible traces of various injuries, including severe burns in...

27.09.2012 - 16:47
Department for Correctional Works comments on inmate’s death

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...

25.09.2012 - 18:42
Relatives Say Dead Tajik Inmate Was Tortured

Relatives of an inmate who died this week in the central detention center in Dushanbe claim that 27-year-old Hamza Ikromzoda was tortured.  Ikromzoda's body was handed to his relatives on September 21. The relatives say the body carries traces of torture, including burns caused by a heated iron. The detention center's officials did not explain the cause of Ikromzoda's death, while...

22.09.2012 - 12:00
Karamkhudoyev’s mother lodges complaint about the use of torture against her son

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...

20.09.2012 - 15:11
Tajikistan: Police inspector sentenced for torture of teenage boy

Amnesty International welcomes the verdict of the Yavan District Court, Khatlon region which found a police inspector (of the Department of Internal Affairs) guilty of torture (under Article 143.1 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan). The police inspector was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for torturing and ill-treating a 17 year old boy (whose name is known to Amnesty...

17.09.2012 - 16:38

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