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Sixty NGO representatives from the Coalitions against Torture in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as well as international human rights groups and representatives from other countries of the former Soviet Union will participate in a regional conference to discuss the role of civil society institutions in the prevention of torture. The conference will be held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on 31 May...

01.06.2016 - 12:41

Tajikistan’s NGO Coalition against Torture is concerned by the growing number of reports circulated in local media and social networks about the arrest and alleged abuse by police of more than 100 participants (including underage children) of the Holi Party Hindu spring festival held in Dushanbe on 15 May 2016. Law enforcement agencies claimed that the celebrations were not agreed with local...

24.05.2016 - 14:54

Penal Reform International office in Central Asia and Legal Initiative Public Fund jointly and Coalition of NGOs Against Torture in Tajikistan with the financial support of Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation in Tajikistan will be hosting a training on preclusion and prevention of torture and ill-treatment against children in closed and semi-closed institutions of Tajikistan. The...

24.05.2016 - 10:22

Celebrations marking the Holi Festival of Colors (a Hindu spring festival) in Dushanbe turned sour after a number of young partygoers claimed they had been arrested and abused by the police. The NGO Coalition Against Torture (Coalition) has urged the partygoers who suffered from police miscoduct to take action against the police officers, and offered to represent them in court. Coalition...

23.05.2016 - 10:53

The first in a series of OSCE-supported training courses for representatives of the Interior Ministry, Prosecutor and Ombudsman offices and civil society on the human rights of persons in police custody took place on May 4, 2016 in Gharm, the administrative center of the Rasht district. According to the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, some 20 participants were instructed on international standards...

10.05.2016 - 11:45

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Tajikistan is being discussed at the UPR Working Group’s 25th session in Geneva today. The NGO Coalition against Torture in Tajikistan has reportedly presented recommendations aimed at strengthening torture prevention in Tajikistan to experts at the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights and to permanent diplomatic missions...

06.05.2016 - 13:03

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Tajikistan will be discussed at the UPR Working Group’s 25th session in Geneva on May 6, 2016. Meanwhile, members of the NGO Coalition against Torture presented recommendations aimed at strengthening torture prevention in Tajikistan to experts at the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights and to permanent diplomatic missions...

05.05.2016 - 09:23

By May 1, Tajikistan has reached 80 percent of the spring conscription campaign target, Colonel Faridoun Mahmadalizoda, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), told Asia-Plus in an interview. In the territorial cross section the percentage the target reached was: Gorno Badakhshan – 87 percent; Khatlon – 94 percent; Sughd – 75 percent; districts subordinate to the center (RRPs) – 73...

03.05.2016 - 18:10

A 20-year-old Umedjon Amrokhon, who is accused of the fatal attack on recruitment officers in Dushanbe, has got a long jail term. The Dushanbe city court sentenced Umedjon Amrokhon to 30 years in prison on April 27.  The sentence followed his conviction on charges of murder of two and more persons and murder of on-duty persons.  Amrokhon will serve his term in a high-security penal...

28.04.2016 - 11:01

The mother of a prisoner, who died after he was allegedly beaten in prison, demands compensation from the Penitentiary Department at the Ministry of Justice. Lubat Burhonova, the mother of prisoner Dilshodbek Murodov, has filed a lawsuit in a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district demanding the Penitentiary Department pay 334,000 somoni in damages for moral losses. Murodov’s family...

27.04.2016 - 10:06

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