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In March 2009 a court convicted 46-year old Dilshodbek Murodov of selling drugs illegally and sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment. He began to serve his long sentence. Everything, including one’s life, was strictly regimented in prison. Prison made Dilshodbek realize that you value freedom least when you are free and most once you have lost it. He awaited his release patiently. His mother...

Dushanbe, 17 October 2011. On that day three plainclothes policemen, accompanied by the local precinct police inspector, apprehended 28-year old Bahromiddin Shodiev in the entrance to his block of flats and drove him to the Shomansur District police department in the capital. Some time later the police phoned the mother of the detained and demanded that she bring 800 somonis, money she was...

Each story recounted in this book resembles the previous one in some way, while also being unique.  Ilhom Ismanov's story is unique in that, after all the torment and pain he suffered he has SURVIVED. And that alone instills hope in his wife and two children, gives them strength to keep going until they are reunited. But until that happens, 3 November 2010, the date Ilhom was abducted,...

Dear friends, colleagues and partners, On the eve of the International Human Rights Day, which is annualy celebrated on 10 of December, the Civil Society Coalition against torture and impunity presents to your attention the updated book "Broken destinies, lives taken away..." [1],  which tells about the 14 true stories of victims of torture and ill-treatment in Tajikistan. The book is...