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The main surviving suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists on a mountain road in Tajikistan in July has been convicted of "murder with extreme violence" and other crimes and sentenced to life in prison, participants in the closed-door trial say.
The top U.S. diplomat in Tajikistan has met with officials from the Prosecutor General's Office and the Foreign Ministry to discuss deadly unrest at a prison in the northern city of Khujand.
The state prosecutor in Tajikistan is seeking a sentence of life in prison for the main suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists on a mountain road in July, RFE/RL has learned.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon inaugurated a new $3.9 billion mega-dam on November 16. He hopes it will solve the Central Asian country's energy needs and transform Tajikistan into an energy exporter.
A 22-year-old English-language teacher, his four students, and five other young men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges in Tajikistan.
The warden of a prison in Tajikistan that witnessed a deadly riot earlier this month has reportedly been arrested.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has launched a new hydroelectric station that had been vehemently opposed for years by the late leader of neighboring Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov.
After an initial denial, Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security (KDAM) says that the authorities have arrested 12 people suspected of plotting an attack on the Russian military base in Dushanbe earlier in November.
At least 50 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Tajikistan last week, sources have told RFE/RL, doubling the death toll in violence that the government has said almost nothing about publicly.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has criticized the country's security forces for their "failure" to prevent" the killing of four foreign cyclists in late July.
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed that one of its "fighters" was responsible for starting the deadly prison riot in northern Tajikistan on November 7.
Sources close to local authorities have told RFE/RL that several inmates were killed when a riot broke out overnight in a prison in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand.
At least 100 people in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region have rallied in the provincial capital, demanding an investigation into an incident in which a police officer shot and wounded three local men.
Marat Orifov, a Tajik filmmaker and actor whose work won accolades in the Soviet era, has died in Dushanbe at the age of 83.
Tajiks donate clothes and cash to help a homeless woman who was so desperate she tried to put her six children into an orphanage.
The United States is concerned over the situation of human rights in Tajikistan, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia and Press and Public Diplomacy has said.
Seventeen Tajiks have gone on trial on suspicion of involvement in the killing of four foreign cyclists on a southern mountain road in late July.
Several Orthodox churches in former Soviet republics have followed the steps of the Russian Orthodox Church and cut their ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
The chief spokesman for Tajikistan's Customs Services press service died following an attack just days after his appointment to the post, medical sources and relatives say.
Seven members of a single Tajik family were wiped out when their truck plunged off a high cliff in the northern district of Lakhsh, police say.
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