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Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament has approved amendments to the law that would ban individuals with dual citizenship from serving in the Central Asian nation's security services.
Tajikistan has introduced electricity rationing in some parts of the country ahead of the approaching winter.
Tajikistan has officially started the construction of the Rogun Dam, a massive project that, if completed, would be the world's tallest and should give the Central Asian nation a stable energy supply.
Power went back on across Tajikistan after a problem at the country’s biggest hydropower plant caused a nearly three-hour blackout аcross the Central Asian nation.
A Tajik court has sentenced a local man to 20 years in prison after convicting him of killing a Russian soldier stationed in the city of Qurghon-Teppa.
Two human rights lawyers in Tajikistan have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on charges of issuing public calls for the overthrow of the government and inciting social unrest.
Kyrgyz authorities have detained the wife of Tajik opposition activist Sobir Valiev, her family and human rights activists say.
Tajikistan says China plans to finance and build several outposts for Tajik border guards along the Tajik-Afghan border.
The presence of Kyrgyz and Tajik activists at an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference on human rights in Warsaw has sparked an official protest from Kyrgyzstan and student protests in Tajikistan.
Human Rights Watch says it is checking reports that authorities in Tajikistan detained some 50 relatives of Tajik activists who had staged a protest at an OSCE conference in Poland this week.
The Tajik government has rejected the UN Human Rights Council’s call to release prisoners held on “politically motivated charges,” tackle “torture” in detention facilities, and redouble efforts to ensure media freedoms.
Tajikistan has released from prison the only woman among several high-ranking officials of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party, her family says.
Tajik authorities say they are looking into reports suggesting fugitive Tajik Colonel Gulmurod Halimov, who joined the extremist group Islamic State (IS) last year, has been appointed IS's top military commander.
The United States is offering a reward of $3 million for information about fugitive Tajik Colonel Gulmurod Halimov, who joined the Islamic State (IS) group last year.
Relatives of a lawyer for a jailed Tajik opposition politician who was linked by authorities to a September 2015 attempted coup say he has been sent to pretrial detention.
The lawyer of a jailed Tajik opposition politician has been detained, his relatives say.
The wife and son of a jailed Tajik opposition politician have gone missing, according to relatives.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has proposed to parliament a mass amnesty law that would release more than 12,000 convicts.
A Russian soldier, who was convicted of killing a 22-year-old Tajik woman at a Russian military base near Dushanbe, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, his defense lawyer and the victim's family said on July 28.
Tajik officials say the number of Tajik migrant workers who left to Russia and other countries in the first half of 2016 has dropped by nearly 7 percent compared to the same period last year.
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