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We stand for human rights!

The Coalition of Civil Society against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan holds a series of events devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Human Rights Day. Every day, over the next 12 days starting from December 3, on our website (notorturetj.org) and our pages on social networks we will quote one of the articles of the Universal...

03.12.2018 - 12:03
Tajikistan held a series of information sessions on ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT)

Within the framework of the European Union project "Action for Freedom from Torture in Tajikistan", the Tajik NGO "Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law" together with the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Tajikistan held a series of information sessions in the regions of the country.    The information sessions, attended by representatives of various...

02.10.2018 - 16:49
Training session on the Istanbul Protocol standards and characteristics of the monitoring of medical centres

On July 25-27, 2018, the Human Rights Centre together with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Tajikistan (hereinafter referred to as “MHSPP RT”)  conduct a three-day training session on the Istanbul Protocol standards and characteristics of the monitoring of  medical institutions. The training will be held within the framework of the European...

26.07.2018 - 20:49
International Anti-Torture Day: NGOs call on Central Asian governments to end torture

On 26 June, International Day of Support for Victims of Torture, the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA, Uzbekistan, based in exile in France), the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR, Turkmenistan, based in exile in Austria) the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland) and International...

26.06.2018 - 07:30
Exhibition of torture victim photos to be held in Tajikistan on June 26

Dedicated to the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, an exhibition of torture victim photos will be held in three cities of Tajikistan – Dushanbe (Dushanbe-Plaza Center), Khujand (head office of Arvin Limited Liability Company) and Bokhtar (Maftouna Hotel) – on June 26.  Eighteen stories about victims of torture will be presented at the upcoming exhibition.   ...

22.06.2018 - 12:27
Senior UN official calls for free and open space for civil society in Tajikistan

Governments have a crucial role to play in the lives of their citizens, “but clearly have no monopoly of wisdom.”  Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to Tajikistan, Andrew Gilmour, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, on May 16 called for civil society space to be opened up, according to UN OHCHR’s website.   He stressed the need for human rights...

17.05.2018 - 11:45
Оnline interactive dialogue of the Government of Tajikistan at the UN Committee Against Torture

Dear colleagues and friends. We are kindly inviting you to attend an online interactive dialogue of the Government of Tajikistan at the UN Committee Against Torture on implementation of its commitments under the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Forms of Treatment and Punishment, to be held on May 4, 2018 in Dushanbe Plaza, Floor No.4 (...

17.04.2018 - 16:12
Shadow report to the Committee against Torture 2018 – Tajikistan

In 2018, the HFHR together with Right and Prosperity presented an alternative report to the Tajikistan authorities’ report on the implementation of the Convention on the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Download – EN Download – RU

16.04.2018 - 14:07
Relatives of man who died after police custody demand fresh autopsy by independent forensic experts

Relatives of man who died in Dushanbe after one-day police custody demand a fresh autopsy by forensic experts from Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defense or Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan. Abdusamad Nazarov, the brother of Abdurasoul Nazarov who died in Dushanbe on March 29 after one-day police custody, says his brother’s body was exhumed on April 7 following their demand. “But the...

09.04.2018 - 16:26
Interior ministry launches internal investigation into death of man who died after one-day police custody

The Interior Ministry has launched an internal investigation into the death of Abdurasoul Nazarov who died in Dushanbe after one-day police custody. “The Interior Ministry launched the internal investigation on April 4 to establish whether officers from Sino-2 police station are really guilty of the death of Abdurasoul Nazarov or not,” Umarjon Emomali, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry...

05.04.2018 - 16:23

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