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A lawyer who defended members of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (HNIT) is going on trial in Dushanbe on charges of forgery and fraud.
Tajik authorities have officially banned the issuance of new identification documents and birth certificates for ethnic Tajiks containing Russified surnames.
Tajik authorities say an imam and four other residents of the northern region of Sughd have been jailed for being followers of a banned branch of Islam.
Tajik lawmakers have approved a bill to designate November 16 as President's Day.
A group of Tajik lawmakers has proposed a draft bill to establish a new official holiday in the Central Asian nation that would mark the presidency of longtime ruler Emomali Rahmon.
Six imams in Tajikistan have been arrested on suspicion of being members of banned extremist groups.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has held talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Tajik authorities will install security cameras and metal detectors in all mosques in the capital, Dushanbe, the office of the city mayor said on March 29.
A prominent Tajik lawyer, who is representing an opposition figure, has said his family is coming under pressure from the authorities because of his professional activities.
The parliament in Tajikistan has approved a bill criminalizing "illegal" hard currency exchanges.
Tajik officials say one of the country's border guards and a suspected terrorist have been killed in an ongoing security operation along the border with Afghanistan.
President Emomali Rahmon has warned Tajik citizens of a potential drought this year, urging them to save water and stock up on food.
Tajik media are reporting that a woman known to be the second wife of a fugitive Tajik colonel, Gulmurod Halimov, has left for Syria along with the couple's four young children.
A Tajik woman has been sentenced to prison for joining the extremist Islamic State (IS) group and calling on Tajik youth to join "jihad" in Syria.
An activist from Tajikistan's opposition Group 24, Shabnam Hudoidodova, has been released from custody in Belarus after being held for more than eight months.
Fourteen residents of Tajikistan's Yovon district have been detained for questioning after they clicked a "like" button on an Islamic extremist video that had been posted to the online Odnoklassniki social network.
A military court in Tajikistan's southern Kulob region has sentenced a member of the army's border guard service to 17 years in jail on charges of desertion and extremism.
Thirteen residents of the Tajik city of Norak have been jailed for raising the Islamic State (IS) group's flag in a public place.
Tajikistan is to hold a referendum on May 22 on constitutional amendments that would enable President Emomali Rahmon to establish a presidential dynasty.
The Tajik Supreme Court has started hearings in the trial of 13 leading members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan accused of attempting to overthrow the government.
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