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Three inmates in Tajikistan have been sentenced to life in prison and 30 others received sentences of between 14 and 24 years for their roles in a deadly prison riot in November.
The Tajik and Chinese militaries have kicked off counterterrorism exercises in Tajikistan’s mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
A small aircraft has crashed in southern Tajikistan, killing the pilot and injuring a co-pilot.
A Chinese-owned factory has blighted the lives of residents in a Tajik village southeast of Dushanbe.
A popular news website in Tajikistan, Asia-Plus, has been blocked in Russia and is barely accessible in Tajikistan.
Four Tajik vloggers are facing criminal charges after secretly filming sex workers for a video report trying to help stop prostitution.
Tajik authorities have transferred dozens of Afghan convicts to their home country to serve their sentences there, officials say.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov have met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh as they look to ease tensions in the region.
Police in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken region on the border with Tajikistan say three officers have been injured in clashes with local residents as officials meet to ease tensions after a deadly incident in the area between Kyrgyz and Tajik nationals.
Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon has rejected claims by relatives of 14 inmates whose deaths were announced last week that the men had been tortured.
Tajik authorities say they are probing the deaths of 14 inmates who allegedly died of food poisoning. Some of the dead prisoners' relatives, however, say the bodies showed signs of beatings.
Fourteen prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan's northern Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7.
Tajikistan and China have signed 18 agreements to bolster bilateral ties. The documents were signed on June 15 in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, following talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
Tajikistan and China have signed 18 agreements to bolster bilateral ties.
A summit of a 27-member regional grouping called the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) opened on June 15 in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Kyrgyz capital to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional grouping led by Moscow and Beijing.
The former warden of a prison in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand has been handed a prison sentence over a deadly riot in November in which dozens of people were killed, a Tajik official has told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity.
An Iranian Varesh Airlines flight has landed in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, marking the resumption of air travel between the two countries after an eight-month pause.
European Council President Donald Tusk has arrived in Tajikistan at the start of a four-day tour of Central Asia.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Dushanbe for talks with Tajikistan's political and military leadership.
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