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Thousands of women in Tajikistan are faced with the choice of either choosing a career or wearing Islamic hijab. Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , says Dushanbe authorities has been increasingly cracking down on the Islamic head scarf at schools and workplaces. asiaplustj.info »
At a meeting with representatives of science and education sectors that took place on May 30, President Emomali Rahmon outlined a significant list of accomplishments over 33 years of Tajikistan’s sovereignty. asiaplustj.info »
Marat Kushtybayev, a former chief of the police department of Taldykurgan City in the southeast of Kazakhstan, has been jailed for raping, KAzTAG news agency reported on April 30, citing the local court’s press service. asiaplustj.info »
Only twenty-eight acquittals passed in Tajikistan over the past five years DUSHANBE, April 29, 224, Asia-Plus – Over the past five years (2019-2023), courts in Tajikistan have delivered only 28 acquittals; twenty-four verdicts were completely acquittal and four others were partially acquittal. asiaplustj.info »
European Immunization Week in Tajikistan (22-27 April 2024) launches a year-long commemoration of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), a global initiative launched in 1974 to expand the benefits of essential WHO-recommended vaccines to all. asiaplustj.info »
A court in Vahdat Township considers actions of a 23-year-old Shahboz Sharifbek falling under the Penal Code’s article related to criminal offences of extremism, though his relatives say he has just criticized the way of conscripting his brother into the army and the fact that his 83-year-old grandmother was beaten at the same time, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally asiaplustj.info »
The number of terrorist attacks committed by Tajik citizens in other countries has increased in recent years that damages the reputation of the country in the international arena, President Emomali Rahmon stated at a meeting with public and religious figures that took place on March 9. asiaplustj.info »
A resident of Khatlon province has got a jail term of 12 years committed in the country during the civil war (1992-1997). asiaplustj.info »
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MOHSPP) marks its achievements in responding and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on January 3 that the chairman of a farming unit in Dousti district, Khatlon province has been jailed for “cooperating” with Isloh TV , a website close to the government opposition. asiaplustj.info »
Uzbek media reports say a police officer in Tashkent has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl. Kun.uz reports that the incident took place in July 2023, and a person serving as a prophylactic inspector in Tashkent’s Yashnabad district was arrested on suspicion of assaulting sexually a 13-year-old girl. asiaplustj.info »
The earliest-known camels dwelled in the territory of modern Tajikistan about 2. 5 million years ago. A camel scull discovered by a joint group of Russia and Tajik paleontologists in Tajikistan is 2. asiaplustj.info »
Ten years ago, on November 16, 2013, “Tajik Bride” by known Chinese painter Jin Shangyi has been sold at the China Guardian Autumn for 14 million U.S. dollars. asiaplustj.info »
The 18-year-old Komyob Faizullo, the son of the Rector of the Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) Mashrab Faizullo, has been convicted for role in a fatal traffic accident that killed the young gifted singer Nekrouz Niyozov. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Uzbek Service , known locally as Radio Ozodlik , reported on October 31 that a Tashkent court has sentenced Uzbekistani citizen Ildar Khairulin to five years in prison for allegedly participating in Russia’s war against Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Since Tajikistan’s independence, the United Nations has been its closest partner on the road to achieving sustainable development. As an independent state, Tajikistan joined the United Nations on March 2, 1992. asiaplustj.info »
Five years ago, the first visit of the President of Tajikistan to Uzbekistan took place after a 20-year break. Following the high-level talks, Emomali Rahmon and Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a strategic partnership agreement, and relations between the two countries began to improve. asiaplustj.info »
The Prosecutor-General’s Office of the Russian Federation has granted Tajikistan's request for extradition of Yusuf Salikhov, who is accused of mass murder that was committed in the Tajik southern city of Sarband (current Levakant in Khatlon province) in October 1992. asiaplustj.info »
The rape and murder of an 8-year-old Katya Dmitriyeva of 28 years ago were solved last year, says the Tajik Interior Ministry’s TV report “Payki Sughd”. The crime was reportedly solved by Tajik police jointly with their Russian colleagues. asiaplustj.info »
Additional 10 years have been added to a jail term of known human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov after he was found guilty of a large-scale fraud. A court of Vahdat Township sentenced Buzurgmehr Yorov to additional ten years in prison on July 10. asiaplustj.info »
Members of Russia’s lower house (State Duma) of parliament from the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPT) have worked out a bill providing for allotting lands to families being married for more than 10 years for housing free of charge. asiaplustj.info »
On June 20th, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) held an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of its work in Tajikistan; which also marked the World Refugee Day with the theme “Hope away from Home. A world where refugees are always included. asiaplustj.info »
Kyrgyzstan’s 24.kg news agency reported on June 12 that a court in Bishkek’s Pervomaisky district has sentenced the fugitive president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev to 30 years in prison. The fugitive president and other defendants in the criminal case were charged with corruption. asiaplustj.info »
Five years ago, on April 19, 2018, Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) endorsed a draft law on amendments to the country’s law on state finances. The amendments, in particular, provided for setting up the Fund of the Leader of Nation. asiaplustj.info »
Imam of a mosque in Kushonion district of Khatlon province has got a jail term for kicking the musicians out of his nephew’s wedding. asiaplustj.info »
A killer of a 5-year-old Tajik girl Huvaido Tillozoda in Moscow oblast has got a lengthy jail term. The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Alexander Syomin to 24 years in prison on March 15, Huvaido’s father Abdusalom Saidov told Asia-Plus by phone. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports say the Russian authorities plan to extend the work patent term for labor migrants up to three years Interfax notes that the Interior Ministry has agreed with the proposal of the Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights Boris Titov to extend the term of a work patent for labor migrants up to three years. asiaplustj.info »
A bill raising the age of conscription into Russia's army has been submitted for consideration to the State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament). Under the bill, the draft age will rise in 2026 to 21 years of age from the current 18 years of age. asiaplustj.info »
A resident of the northern city of Isfara, Sughd province, has been detained on suspicion of fraud committed nine years ago, according to the Interior Ministry’s official website. “Entering the trust in his fellow citizen, the suspect took 13,000 US dollars from him in February 2014, promising to help with the allocation of land for housing in the city. asiaplustj.info »
A notorious Islamic State (IS) terror group recruiter from Tajikistan, Parviz Saidrahmonov, who is also known as Abu Dovoud, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in November on terrorism charges in Dushanbe, Tajik Supreme Court officials told reporters in Dushanbe on February 16. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik foresters are expected to plant Paulownia trees in a 1000-ha area within the next five years in the hope to have big profits. The tree is also recommended to be grown by the rural population and farmers For one cycle of four or five years, one hectare of Paulownia trees can bring in millions of somonis. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on January19 that a brother of jailed Tajik lawyer Saidnouriddin Shamsiddinov has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges that he rejects. asiaplustj.info »
Independent journalist Zavqibek Saidamini, who is charged with extremism, has got a lengthy jail term. A court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district sentenced Zavqibek Saidamini to seven years in prison on November 3. asiaplustj.info »
Iran’s official news agency IRNA reports that co-chaired by Iran’s Minister of Culture Mohammad, Mr. Mehdi Esmaeili, and his Tajik counterpart, Ms. Zulfiya Davlatzoda, a meeting was held in Tehran on October 4 to discuss issues related to fostering bilateral ties, particularly cultural cooperation, “which is to develop after a 14-year pause. asiaplustj.info »
The court of the Shokhmansur metropolitan district sentenced journalist Abdullo Gurbati to seven years and six months in prison in a penal colony with a high security regime. He was found guilty on three articles incriminated to him, the Independent Center for the Protection of Human Rights reports. asiaplustj.info »
ladimir Sherstov, a 40-year-old resident of Dushanbe, was found guilty of raping and murdering an underage girl and sentenced to 29 years in prison, the country's Prosecutor General's Office reports. asiaplustj.info »
In a statement delivered at a n international conference eon Afghanistan in Tashkent, Uzbek Deputy Minister of Transport, Zhasurbek Choriyev stated on July 26 that the Trans-Afghan railway Termez – Mazar-e Sharif – Kabul – Peshawar is planned to be built in five years. asiaplustj.info »
In 1957, Prince Karim Aga Khan, a 20-year-old student at Harvard, became Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims when his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, passed away, says the Agha Khan Development Network (AKDN). asiaplustj.info »
A noted Tajik rights defender, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2021 on fraud charges that he has rejected, has got additional six years in prison. Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , says a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district sentenced Izzat Amon to six years in prison on June 6. asiaplustj.info »
A traveler from Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, Polina Yermakova, was detained in Uzbekistan for transporting a drone, according to Fergana.ru. Polina reportedly entered Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan on May 15 and two days later on May 17, she was detained at the railway station in Tashkent when she was going to travel by train to Bukhara. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik journalist Mahmadyusuf Ismoilov, who served almost nine years in the Khujand-based penal colony 3/5, was released Saturday (April 16) evening. He says now he plans to focus on writing materials in a humorous and satirical style. asiaplustj.info »
A former field commander of the pro-government Popular Front, Khouja Karimov, better known as Commander Khouja, now faces additional years in prison after new charges have been brought against him. He is notorious for reported cruelty during the conflict. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court sentenced Aziza Davlatova, the main suspect in the torture of Madina Mahmadjonova, the alleged second wife of her husband Parviz Davlatov, to eleven years in prison on December 28. But amnesty was applied on her and her jail term was cut to ten years. asiaplustj.info »
On December 25, 1991, the United States of America recognized the independence of the Republic of Tajikistan, and on February 14, 1992, the two governments agreed to establish diplomatic relations. December 25, 1991: The United States of America recognized the independence of the Republic of Tajikistan. February 14, 1992: U.S. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced Parviz (Lutfullo) Davlatov to eight years in prison on December 14. But amnesty was applied on him and his jail term was cut to five years and four months. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan has reviewed criminal proceedings instituted against a 43-year-old resident of Hisor district Husniddin Abdulloyev, who raped a 12-year-old neighbor girl, and sentenced him to 12 years in prison, Asia-Plus learned from the “Tashabbusi Huquqi” (Legal Initiative) Public Foundation, which provided the injured party with a defense lawyer. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service says prosecutors in Khatlon province are seeking an additional seven years in prison for a jailed lawyer on charges of having links with an extremist group. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty says a well-connected woman in Dushanbe is facing up to 15 years in prison for the attempted murder of her husband’s alleged second wife in a case being closely watched by Tajiks. asiaplustj.info »
The amnesty law was not applied to him. On October 19, the Dushanbe city court sentenced Izzat Amon, a human rights defender of migrants in Russia, to nine years in prison. This was announced by his lawyer Saidburkhon Sharipov. asiaplustj.info »
He imported goods from Iran and China for $ 3.9 million and did not pay taxes. asiaplustj.info »
