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Tajikistan’s state religious committee has ordered local governments to fire many foreign-educated imams in what it calls a bid to prevent extremism.
A group defending gay rights in Tajikistan's northern region of Sughd says it has been forced to stop its operations following a series of inspections by local authorities.
A court official in Tajikistan says prison sentences have been handed down to two brothers and a nephew of Gulmurod Halimov, a fugitive police colonel who joined the extremist group Islamic State (IS).
Tajik authorities have quietly reburied the remains of several prominent figures after digging them up from a small cemetery inside a Dushanbe park. The relatives say they found out about the burials only after they happened.
Prosecutors in Tajikistan say authorities have drawn up a registry of more than 300 LGBT people in the Central Asian nation, a move purportedly aimed at protecting sexual minorities and halting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Greek authorities have detained a leading member of Tajikistan's outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), a spokesman for the party told RFE/RL on October 11.
Police confirm a number of young women have appealed for help after private pics, contact details turn up on tawdry websites.
Tajikistan is demanding that Wikipedia correct what it described as spelling mistakes in the online encyclopedia's Tajik-language content, saying the company is legally responsible for the errors. But one volunteer Wikipedia editor asks "why not do it yourself?"
Tajikistan's Anticorruption Agency says a top government official has been caught while taking a $490,000 bribe.
A Tajik scholar known for his public criticism of the government has left the country and says he has no immediate plans to return.
The former director of Tajikistan’s National Library has gone on trial on charges of violating a law that curtails spending on weddings, funerals, and other private gatherings.
Moscow police detained a large number of migrant workers from Tajikistan who protested following what an advocate for migrants said was the severe beating of a Tajik man by security personnel at a shopping mall.
A former top officer at Tajikistan's Anticorruption Agency has been convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Local officials in southern Tajikistan say the director of the regional airport in the city of Khorugh has died after being thrown to the ground by a downdraft from President Emomali Rahmon's helicopter and hitting his head on a rock.
The corruption trial of six former officials from Tajikistan’s State Anticorruption Agency was nearing an end on September 12 with the defendants making their closing remarks.
Text messages are being sent to millions of Tajiks to remind them they must obey the country’s new law on traditional fashion.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has left Dushanbe for China for a state visit ahead of a summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group of emerging economies.
Tajikistan's Education Ministry says the school year will begin as planned on September 1, despite being synchronous with the major Islamic festival Eid al-Adha, a public holiday under the country’s constitution.
President Emomali Rahmon has reinstated a local Tajik official who had been fired by a regional governor over an out-of-tune musical performance at a presidential meeting.
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a man to prison after convicting him of driving his 18-year-old wife to suicide in June amid the couple's arguments over her virginity.
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