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Relatives have held funerals for some of the victims of a May 19 riot at a prison in Vahdat, east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. Interior Ministry officials said the violence left 29 inmates and three guards dead, though other sources put the death toll much higher.
Tajikistan's Justice Ministry said three prison guards and 29 inmates were killed in a riot that broke out in a maximum-security prison, the second deadly prison clashes to hit the the country in the last six months.
Students and lecturers are being pushed by the Tajik state to serve as online "trolls," according to personal testimonials and documents obtained by RFE/RL.
Foreign diplomats have called on Tajikistan's authorities to allow open access to the Internet across the Central Asian country.
Conservationists have captured images of a striped hyena in Tajikistan. It's a rare sighting of a species at risk of extinction.
Tajikistan has repatriated 84 minors from Iraq, where their Tajik mothers have been imprisoned under charges of belonging to the extremist group Islamic state (IS) or are awaiting trial.
Relatives of a spokesman for Tajikistan’s border service say that he was arrested earlier this month, confirming media reports that he was detained, but that they do not know where he is.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has canceled a government's decision to increase Internet fees in the Central Asian country in the face of online protests.
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a former member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) to 15 years in prison after a controversial extremism trial.
Prominent Tajik actress Musharrafa Qosimova, known as "the mother of Tajik theater," has died at the age of 100 in Dushanbe.
Authorities in the Tajik town of Kulob received a World Bank grant of around $160,000 to build a new school. Three years after it opened, the school started to collapse and teachers and students were forced to abandon it.
The American mother of one of four foreign cyclists killed in a terrorist attack in Tajikistan last year has said she will seek financial compensation from the Central Asian country.
Kyrgyz authorities have evacuated residents of two villages near a disputed section of its border with Tajikistan following deadly clashes in the area.
Two people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in two days of clashes on the disputed border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
There's been a deadly clash between villagers along a disputed section of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border after Kyrgyzstan restarted construction work on a controversial road in the area.
Sharofiddin Gadoev, a Tajik opposition activist based in the Netherlands, swore he would never voluntarily return to his home country. But he says that government agents seized him in Moscow, beat him, and sent him back to Tajikistan.
A prominent opposition activist who claims to have been abducted and tortured by Tajik officials last month says he was pressed to back President Emomali Rahmon’s eldest son in the presidential election scheduled for 2020.
Wolves have killed two women in eastern Tajikistan, prompting complaints from residents that they have been unable to defend themselves against wolf attacks since local authorities confiscated their hunting rifles.
A prominent Tajik opposition activist says he was abducted, tortured, and forced to appear in propaganda videos before being released amid international pressure on Dushanbe over his case.
Human Rights Watch says a prominent Tajik opposition activist was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured in Russia and Tajikistan before he was allowed to return to the Netherlands, where he has refugee status.
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