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The head of the Afghan Refugee Committee in Dushanbe, Musavvir Bahaduri, has denied recent claims about the forced deportation of Afghan nationals from Tajikistan. Speaking to Asia-Plus , Bahaduri said the reports are unfounded and emphasized that no refugees have filed complaints with the committee regarding forced expulsion. asiaplustj.info »
Several school graduates and their parents have approached Asia-Plus with complaints that in the capital and some regions of Tajikistan, school principals are forcing graduates to submit documents to participate in entrance exams at the National Testing Center (NTC). asiaplustj.info »
Diplomatic services of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have successfully freed their citizens, as well as Kyrgyz nationals, who had become victims of a criminal group after being lured into forced labor in Myanmar, Uzbekistan’s Dunyo news agency reported on April 13. asiaplustj.info »
The year 2024 was challenging for Tajikistan’s cotton industry—harvest volumes dropped significantly, and farmers faced economic and climatic difficulties. Problems with cultivation, forced cotton production, and unfavorable production conditions were the key challenges for this vital sector. asiaplustj.info »
CABAR.asia reports that the water shortage problem in Lolazor village in Vakhsh district of the southern Khatlon province has not been resolved for many years. Lolazor village is located in the piedmont area of Vakhsh district, 140 kilometers south of Dushanbe. asiaplustj.info »
Current Time says natives of Central Asian countries and other foreigners serving their jail terms in Russian prisons and penal colonies continue to report being forced en masse to sign contracts and go to war with Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Like some other Central Asian countries, Tajikistan faces an acute shortage of teachers, schools, and textbooks. Tajikistan's population has skyrocketed to more than 10 million people in recent years and 2. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty reported on June 13 that two letters obtained by it from inmates at the penal colony in the Russian city of Samara show that inmates from Central Asia are being forced to work at the penal colony-based plant to support Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
The United Nations' refugee agency said Thursday that 100 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes in the past year. This is the highest number of displaced people recorded since World War II. asiaplustj.info »
In Dushanbe, children can be seen washing cars, selling small items, behind the counters of stores and other retail outlets where they help and sometimes even replace adults. They offer their help to carry bags and heavy bags near large shopping malls, and some of them even offer to shine shoes, a report issued by CABAR.asia on June 6 says . asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says that during two months in spring (April-May and two months in autumn (October-November), Tajik men of serving age are routinely hauled off streets or taken from their homes and forced into cars by plainclothes law enforcement, according to . Locally, this practice is known as ‘oblava’ (raid). asiaplustj.info »
A group of Afghan refugees that arrived in Tajikistan amid Taliban fear found themselves forced to return to Afghanistan. They say their efforts to leave for a third country have not yielded results, and, according to them, it is very difficult to find good job and income in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
More than 1,000 Afghan troops have been forced to flee into Tajikistan as Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province is increasingly coming under control of the Taliban. asiaplustj.info »
Nearly 400 other Afghan troops have been forced to flee into Tajikistan over the past weekend as the situation hast been aggravated in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province. asiaplustj.info »
The Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity in Tajikistan says a resident of the city of Tursunzoda, Hasan Yodgorov, who is disabled since childhood (he has a left leg prosthesis), served six months in a pretrial detention facility several years ago on murder charges and he was released only after the real killer was caught. asiaplustj.info »
Kyrgyz merchants running shops at Dordoy Bazaar in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek are reportedly threatening Tajik entrepreneurs running shops at Bishkek’s Madina Bazaar demanding that Tajik entrepreneurs stop their activities in Bishkek or begin purchasing goods through them. Only domestic producers supported Tajik businessmen. asiaplustj.info »
More than 9,800 people in Tajikistan have been sent on forced leave due to downtime of some enterprises, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. Moreover, 8,000 (more than 80 percent) of them have been sent on forced leave without pay. 200 people now work part-time. asiaplustj.info »
