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On 26 of June the whole world will commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1997 with a view to eradicate torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (TCIDT) and ensure the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 15 of...

20.06.2016 - 11:50

On 26 of June the whole world will commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1997 with a view to eradicate torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (TCIDT) and ensure the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 15 of...

19.06.2016 - 08:48

A court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district has rejected the suit for moral damage bought by the mother of a prisoner, who died after he was allegedly beaten, against the Penitentiary Department at the Ministry of Justice. We will recall that Lubat Burhonova, the mother of prisoner Dilshodbek Murodov, in March filed a lawsuit in a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district demanding the...

17.06.2016 - 16:57

On 26 of June the whole world will commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1997 with a view to eradicate torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (TCIDT) and ensure the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 15 of...

17.06.2016 - 14:39

The NGO Coalition against Torture in Tajikistan announced the launch of a new campaign "Support the victims of torture! Stop impunity!” that will continue until 26 June, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. During the next ten days the Coalition will publish the stories of victims of torture and ill-treatment on its website www.notorture.tj as well as through its...

16.06.2016 - 14:50

On 26 of June the whole world will commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1997 with a view to eradicate torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (TCIDT) and ensure the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 15 of...

16.06.2016 - 13:53

The parents of the soldier, who died after he was allegedly beaten by older soldiers, demand compensation from the Ministry of Defense. They have filed a lawsuit in a court of the Dushanbe military garrison demanding the Ministry of Defense pay 238,800 somoni in damages for moral losses, according to the Office for Civil Freedoms, a Tajik human rights organization. Consideration of the case...

15.06.2016 - 18:39

On 26 of June the whole world will commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1997 with a view to eradicate torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (TCIDT) and ensure the effective functioning of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 15 of...

15.06.2016 - 14:05

A roundtable on “Military Personnel Rights” has been organized in Rasht region by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) in Tajikistan in cooperation with Public Association “Citizens Freedoms’ Office” under the support the Ombudsman Office in the Republic of Tajikistan. According to IWRP Tajikistan, the participants of the roundtable included representatives of the respective...

13.06.2016 - 11:49

The NGO Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), and International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium) today welcomed recent legal amendments adopted by the Tajikistani government, which, if implemented, could significantly improve safeguards against torture and ill-treatment for detainees. On 14 May 2016,...

06.06.2016 - 15:01

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