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Dear friends, partners and colleagues! The Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan congratulates you on the World Human Rights Day. On 10 December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrined the basic inalienable human rights and freedoms throughout the world, regardless of place of residence and occupation, faith...

10.12.2021 - 23:25

Civil society organizations express deep concern at the death and numerous injuries of civilians during arbitrary detention and peaceful protests in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of the Republic of Tajikistan and calls on the authorities of Tajikistan to conduct a thorough investigation. THE TEXT IS OPEN FOR SIGNATURE TO PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS, INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL NGOS. IF YOU WANT...

28.11.2021 - 16:45

It does not matter who our children are — no one has the right to ill-treat them 26 June, is the United Nations (UN) International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. And on this day 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...

25.06.2021 - 09:50

On 17 April, 2014 Farrukh Davlatov a sergeant of the military unit 2850 of the Border Guards under the authority of the State Committee on National Security of Tajikistan in Matcha district, required the three newly arrived conscripts and ordered them to stand in a row after which started beating them in the abdomen area. The third soldier was Akmal Davlatov. At the result of hard punch he...

13.06.2021 - 18:52

On 27 January, 2014 several servicemen of the border post of the Unit 2857, in Spitamen,  required the newly arrived conscripts to line up and “for educational purposes” started beating them at different parts of the body. As a result a young conscript Maksud Nosirov had fainted and later died without regaining consciousness. According the forensic - medical examination, M.Nosirov died...

11.06.2021 - 18:37

Faruhjon Haytaliev had only 8 months left before the completion his service in the army. He was recruited by Temurmalik Military Commissariat in October 2014 and served in Unit 2847 of the Border Guards under the authority of the State Committee on National Security of Tajikistan. Throughout the year Haytaliev along with other fellow servicemen was reportedly abused and beaten by Alikhon Tuichiev...

10.06.2021 - 18:20

The 25-year old taxi driver Shamsiddin Zaydulloev was detained in April 2015 on suspicion in drug trafficking. Few days later he died at the temporary detention of the Drug Control Agency. His relatives assured that his death was caused by beatings and torture. According to the victim’s mother Tojiniso Karimova, her son worked as a taxi driver.  On 8 April 2015, approximately at 18:00,...

08.06.2021 - 12:38

It was a hot morning of June. Dilorom, accompanied by her little daughter, went to the market to buy groceries for a dinner she hosted that day. They had relatives to come on and she tried to make sure that she is not missing anything from the grocery list she made in a rush. After all, hosts in the East are very generous. On the way home, she bought some medicines for the middle son, a...

07.06.2021 - 12:28

The story of Shahbol Mirzoyev, an ordinary conscript who served in Tajik Army and had been subjected to ill-treatment by fellow Senior Officer, shocked many people. In 2013, the 22-year-old Shahbol Mirzoev wanted to join the Khujand’s Airport Custom service upon graduating from the Law faculty of Khujand University of Commerce. However before that he was required to serve one year in the Army...

06.06.2021 - 17:24

The death of a young man in the custody of Vahdat police station allegedly at the result of torture was broadly discussed in public. This case received a lot of attention from both local and foreign media which called the 23-year-old Umar Bobojonov the victim of a covert campaign against wearing a beard. However, even after almost a year the perpetrators haven’t been established yet. The 66-...

05.06.2021 - 12:02

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