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Tajik lawmakers have approved legislation that obliges individuals and organizations "to stick to traditional and national clothes and culture," a move widely seen as an effort to discourage people from wearing the hijab and Islamic clothing.
A court in Dushanbe has fined a Russian woman after finding her guilty of an attempt to smuggle a tsarist-era copper coin out of Tajikistan.
A Tajik migrant worker in Moscow says he was badly beaten -- with several teeth shattered and part of his left ear bitten off -- by the husband of a woman he asked not to let her dog use a flowerbed as a bathroom.
Prosecutors in Tajikistan have asked a court to sentence a Russian woman to six years in prison for an alleged "attempt to smuggle" a tsarist-era copper coin out of the country.
A Tajik police officer has been fired and his boss demoted after the officer stopped and questioned a young couple who were kissing on a Dushanbe street, the Interior Ministry says.
Tajik authorities say a driver who is suspected of causing a fatal traffic accident in Dushanbe is an officer of the State Committee for National Security (KDAM).
Tajikistan on August 8 accused Iran of backing high-profile killings in the wake of the Central Asian country's 1990s civil war, including the assassination of former parliament chairman Safarali Kenjaev in 1999.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced a Tajik man to 13 years in jail for giving medical aid to a high-profile defector, former Tajik police commander Gulmurod Halimov, who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
Tajik authorities have arrested a man after his new wife committed suicide last month amid the couple's arguments over her virginity.
One of the daughters of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has been appointed a deputy head of the country’s largest commercial bank, Orienbank.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is urging people in the predominantly Muslim country not to wear beards or hijabs.
Four close relatives of a former police commander in Tajikistan who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in 2015 have been killed in a clash with Tajik security forces.
Tajikistan is marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Tajik Peace Accord that ended a five-year civil war between the secular government and the coalition of opposition groups led by Islamic forces.
Authorities in Tajikistan have barred citizens under the age of 40 from performing this year's annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
Tajikistan’s government says five Tajik citizens currently on death row in China could avoid execution due to a new agreement expected to go into effect on July 19.
A Tajik law-enforcement official has told RFE/RL that the son of a fugitive Tajik police colonel who joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in 2015 will face trial for allegedly trying to join his father in Iraq.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has given the rank of state justice counselor to his daughter Ozoda Rahmon, the head of the presidential administration.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon have discussed the human rights situation in the Central Asian country.
Russia says it has for the first time used its Iskander-M tactical ballistic-missile systems out of the country during military exercises in Tajikistan.
Life has "turned into a nightmare" for the family of a former Tajik police colonel who left the Central Asian country two years ago and joined the extremist group Islamic State (IS), his daughter says.
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