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Police officer in Yovon district jailed for torture

The article against torture has been used in Tajikistan for the first time. The district police officer from the Yovon district Mashraf Aliyev has been sentenced to seven years in prison for use of torture against a suspect. A court in the Yovon district, Khalton province sentenced the district police officer Mashraf Aliyev to seven years in prison on September 6.  The sentence...

11.09.2012 - 10:17
Human rights activists call on Rahmon to take measures against torture

The Coalition of NGOs against Torture -- which consists of several independent law consultancy groups – has called on President Emomali Rahmon to join public censure of torture and officially declare zero tolerance against torture in the country. An appeal made by the Coalition to President Rahmon on June 26 on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, in...

15.08.2012 - 12:11
Suspect in murder of president’s relative claims innocence

D.K., who was arrested on July 13 on suspicion of the murder of president’s brother-in-law Kholmumin Safarov, has repudiated his previous testimony. D.K.’s lawyers told this Asia-Plus today.  According to them, their client made that statement on July 26 during investigative action in the territory of the Dushanbe police temporary detention facility. The lawyers say D.K. was tortured...

27.07.2012 - 15:14
Trial of police officer charged with use of torture opens in Yovon

The trial of Mashraf Aliyev, the district police officers from the Yovon district, began in a court in Khatlon’s Yovon district on July 25. We will recall that criminal proceedings have been instituted against Aliyev under the provisions of three articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 143' – torture; Article 109 – driving to suicide; and Article 316 – misuse of powers. On April 29...

26.07.2012 - 14:58
“Murder suspect” reportedly tortured to confess

Amnesty International (AI) reports that a 45-year-old man, who was arrested on July 13 on suspicion of the murder of President Rahmon’s brother-in-law, is now in police custody in the capital, Dushanbe, where witnesses say he has been tortured and otherwise ill-treated to force him to confess. The husband of President Rahmon’s elder sister was found dead on June 13: he had been shot several...

25.07.2012 - 12:01
UN Committee Against Torture prepares list of issues to be considered by Tajik government

\The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) has prepared the list of issues to be considered in connection with the consideration of the second periodic report of Tajikistan. Ms. Nigina Bahriyeva, the head of the Nota Bene Public Association, says the list includes issues related to the fulfillment by Tajikistan of its obligations on preventing torture and ill-treatment. The Committee, in...

23.07.2012 - 14:48
Tajik law enforcement authorities take measures to prevent the use of torture

Tajik law enforcement authorities are taking measures to prevent the use of torture and other ill-treatment by security officials. In a report released at a roundtable in Dushanbe, Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov noted that on July 13 that a new position – an assistant to chief of police department for interaction with the public -- has been introduced in police stations in all cities and...

13.07.2012 - 18:13
Tajikistan: torture unchecked in the absence of rule of law

Amnesty International has announced a report chronicling routine torture and abuse in detention centers throughout Tajikistan. The full report, entitled “Shattered Lives: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment by Law Enforcement Officials in Tajikistan” takes an in-depth look at the treatment of those held in police custody. “The torture methods used by the security forces are shocking: involving...

12.07.2012 - 17:08

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