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The chairman of Afghanistan's High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, has held talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and other top officials in the Tajik capital as he looks to drum up regional support for peace talks with the Taliban.
Tajik authorities have detained on unspecified charges the nephew of Mahmurod Odinaev, the deputy chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party who is also being held by authorities.
Russia's Rosaviatsia aviation agency has issued a permit to the AZUR Air company to operate flights to Tajikistan amid restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Tajik authorities say they have detained opposition leader Mahmurod Odinaev on a hooliganism charge days after the politician went missing.
Tajik authorities say they have yet to launch an official search for opposition leader Mahmurod Odinaev, disputing a claim by relatives that a request to do so has been filed.
Tajik authorities say families of inmates are now allowed to visit their relatives in the Central Asian country’s penitentiaries, seven months after a ban on such visits was imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A well-known Tajik Islamic cleric, Eshoni Sirojiddin, also known as Sirojiddin Abdurahmonov, reportedly has been detained at his home in Dushanbe.
Well-known Tajik writer Bahmanyor Amini has died in Dushanbe at the age of 66.
Tajik students of foreign universities who have been prevented from leaving the Central Asian country due to travel restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus are pleading the authorities for help.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced the son of well-known Islamic cleric Said Qiyomiddin Ghozi to 13 years in prison on a charge of high treason.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, who holds the dubious distinction of being the only post-Soviet autocrat in power longer than Belarus's Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has been sworn in for his fifth term in office.
A publishing house in Tajikistan has been awarded a lucrative government contract in a dubiously conducted tender by the public procurement agency. An RFE/RL investigation has revealed that the firm is linked to President Rahmon’s son-in-law and that another close relative oversaw the bidding.
The UN Security Council has extended sanctions against Colonel Gulmurod Halimov, a former commander of the Tajik Interior Ministry's Special Forces, known as OMON, who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria in May 2015 and who has been reported killed several times in recent years.
Mahbuba Ghanieva, a 45-year-old widow, says she was kicked out of her house in Tajikistan by her husband's family after he died in 2012. She and her two daughters now survive by collecting scrap metal and other trash along mountainous paths and dusty roads.
Tajikistan's authoritarian President Emomali Rahmon has been reelected for a fifth term with nearly 91 percent of the vote, according to preliminary official results, following a tightly controlled and largely ceremonial election.
Instances of what appears to be ballot stuffing were filmed during the presidential election in Tajikistan on October 11. Two men throwing multiple ballot papers in the ballot box are shown at the beginning of this RFE/RL video from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Autocratic Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon has cast his ballot in the country's presidential election. Rahmon voted in the capital, Dushanbe, on October 11. He has ruled the Central Asian country since 1992.
Irregularities have been reported from the October 11 presidential election in Tajikistan. Talking to an RFE/RL correspondent in the northern city of Khujand, two voters openly said that they had cast more than one ballot. Both women claimed to have voted on behalf of other family members.
Villagers in southern Tajikistan say they were ordered to donate money to their local authorities to buy carpets, flowers, and street billboards ahead of President Emomali Rahmon’s visit to their region on September 23.
At least 21 people have been injured in a clash that erupted after a domestic-league soccer match in the eastern Tajik city of Khorog.
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