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Front Line Defenders launches Olympics campaign on 12 human rights defenders

‘Rights. Risks. Change!’ Campaign to focus attention on targeted human rights defenders Front Line Defenders launched an online and social media campaign today to focus attention on the plight of 12 human rights defenders (HRDs) from Eastern Europe and Central Asia coinciding with the launch of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The ‘Rights. Risks. Change!’ campaign (www.sportshrd.org)...

10.02.2014 - 10:32
Forthcoming Visit by the Special Rapporteur and the ATI Team to the Tajikistan

As part of the follow-up efforts of the Anti-Torture Initiative, the Special Rapporteur is pleased to announce his follow-up visit to the Republic of Tajikistan, which will take place between February 10 and 13, 2014. During the visit, the Special Rapporteur and the ATI team will meet with high-level Government officials, local civil society partners, and representatives from UN agencies and...

07.02.2014 - 21:58
UN Special Rapporteur on torture expected to visit Tajikistan next week

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Mr. Juan E. Mendez, will visit Tajikistan from February 10-12, Tajikistan’s Human Rights Ombudsman Zarif Alizoda announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on February 7. “During his previous visit to Tajikistan, the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment...

07.02.2014 - 14:48
‘Nobody died of exposure in Dushanbe jails,’ says Ombudsman’s Office representative

Representative of Tajik Ombudsman’s Office, Husniddin Nidoyev, visited pretrial detention facility # 9/1 and penal colony # 3/1 in Dushanbe yesterday afternoon, and according to him, no one prison inmate died of exposure to cold “as some media sources reported Thursday morning.” “I also talked to Mahmadrahim Saidov, who allegedly died of exposure to cold while in disciplinary cell. I did not...

07.02.2014 - 10:10
European Union supports torture prevention actions in Tajikistan

The European Union has started funding regional project entitled: "Action for freedom from torture in Kazakhstan andTajikistan" under the "European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights" programme (EIDHR), for a total amount of EUR 1 156 690. As inform NoTorture.Tj Mahbuba Abdullaeva, Press and Information Officer of the EU Delegation to...

05.02.2014 - 16:47
Opposition party member dies in hospital

Umed Tojiev died in a hospital in Tajikistan on 19 January. He was reportedly subjected to torture and other ill-treatment so that he would confess to being involved with terrorism. Such treatment led him to jump out of the third floor window of the police station in Sughd region, breaking both his legs. Umed Tojiev died at the Central Hospital of Main Directorate of Implementation of...

23.01.2014 - 00:41
IRP activist dies in prison hospital

A member of the board of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Isfara, Umedjon Tojiyev, died on January 19 more than two months after falling from the third floor of the Isfara police station. IRP deputy head Mahmadali Hayit says they heard of that from Ms. Fayziniso Vohidova, human rights activist and lawyer from the northern Sughd province. Ms. Vohidova confirmed this in an...

20.01.2014 - 15:46
Disgraced Tajik businessman sentenced to 26 years in jail

The court sentenced disgraced Tajik businessman Zayd Saidov to 26 years in prison and confiscation of property on December 25. According to Saidov’s defense lawyer, Shuhrat Qudratov, the sentence followed his conviction of charges of bribe-taking, financial fraud, polygamy, rape and illegal deprivation of liberty. Zayd Saidov will serve his term in a high-security penal colony. The court's...

25.12.2013 - 17:49
Ikormzoda’s defense lawyer intends to send torture video to examination

Lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov, who represents the family of Hamza Ikromzoda, who died in detention center in Dushanbe in September 2012, says he intends to send photographs and videos showing injuries sustained by Ikromzoda after allegedly being tortured by prison guards, for examination to Russia. “On December 23, a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district thrown out an application by the family...

24.12.2013 - 20:49
Qurghon Teppa court upholds Yovon court’s verdict against police officer, accused of torturing teen

Тhe Qurghon Teppa city court that reconsidered criminal proceedings instituted against Mashraf Aliyev, a former officer from the police station in the Yovon district of Khatlon province, who is accused of torturing teen boy, sentenced him to seven years in jail on December 11. The sentence followed his conviction on the charge of torture (Article 143 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code). ...

12.12.2013 - 19:26

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