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Tajik authorities are continuing to take measures intended to tackle the practice of torture. The Sughd prosecutor’s office has completed investigation into case of two police officers charged with torture of a detainee and the case has already moved to a court in Khujand, the capital of the Sughd province. Muhammadrizo Khalifazoda, head of the department for overseeing implementation of...

Tajik Ombudsman Zarif Alizoda has applied to the Prosecutor-General’s Office over the suspicion death of Hamza Ikromzoda in Dushanbe’s penal colony. According to the press center of the Ombudsman’s Office, Zarif Alizoda has expressed concern over the death of a convict in Dushanbe’s penal colony # 1 and called on the Prosecutor-General’s Office to thoroughly investigate the convict’s death...

Two former police officers charged over the death of a detainee have been amnestied. Ms. Gulchehra Kholmatova, the lawyer of the injure party, told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon that the Dushanbe prosecutor’s office last week handed down ruling on dropping criminal proceedings instituted against former Dushanbe policemen Abdurahmon Yoqubov and Qodir Hasanov in connection with amnesty granted to...

On Tuesday October 9 Umed Boboyev, Adviser to the President for Legal Policy, received relatives of Hamza Ikromzoda, who died in a penal colony in Dushanbe in mid-September. Dilkhoh Ikromzoda, the sister of Hamza, says Boboyev has promised to control the process of investigation into Hamza’s death. According to her, their father – Fayzali Ikromov – wrote a letter to President Emomali Rahmon...