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A jailed Tajik politician has been transferred to a remote penal colony shortly after giving an interview to RFE/RL.
Tajikistan's Interior Ministry says it has filed extradition requests for seven alleged members of a banned Tajik political opposition group who were arrested in Russia in recent months.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have made progress in talks aimed at easing tensions over recent cross-border violence.
Russian officers in the 109th garrison court in Dushanbe confiscated and partly deleted video material from a high-profile trial covered by RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
Two Russian soldiers suspected in the killing of a Tajik taxi driver last year have gone on trial in the capital, Dushanbe.
Six people were wounded by gunfire and several were injured by stones as cross-border violence between villages in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan persisted for a second day.
Relatives of the main suspect in the killing of Tajik opposition tycoon Umarali Quvatov in Turkey say he is innocent.
Residents near a Russian military base in southern Tajikistan say a group of drunken Russian soldiers in their underwear brawled in the street overnight with local Tajik men who had confronted them about their raucous behavior.
Tajik authorities say they have arrested two men affiliated with the Islamic State extremist group who planned 12 terrorist attacks across the country.
Mudslides and floods caused by melting glaciers have killed at least seven people in Tajikistan's eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan over the last few days.
Tajik authorities say news outlets in the country are not allowed to report official news without citing the state-run news agency.
Mudslides and floods caused by rains and melting glaciers destroyed almost 60 houses, trade and cultural facilities, electricity lines, and an irrigation system in Tajikistan's eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan over the last few days.
Forty-five foreigners have been arrested in Turkey after allegedly trying to enter Syria illegally to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group, Turkish media said.
The Taliban in Afghanistan has released four Tajik border guards after mediation efforts by Qatar.
Tajikistan has issued an international arrest warrant for a top Tajik police commander who joined the Islamic State (IS) group.
RFE/RL's Tajik- and Russian-language websites, YouTube, and a number of Russian social networks were inaccessible in Tajikistan on May 28.
A top Tajik police commander who has been missing for weeks has reappeared on the Internet, claiming that he has joined the Islamic State (IS) militant group in protest at official restrictions on religious observance back home.
Tajik authorities vow to shed light on the fate of a missing OMON commander amid sensational reports he was arrested abroad while holding a fake passport and extradited home.
Tajikistan's parliament has unanimously approved a Tajik-Chinese agreement on the mutual extradition of suspected and convicted felons.
Tajik prosecutors are investigating suspected fraud in connection with the sale of bogus permits to people hoping to avoid falling afoul of state efforts to combat religious extremism.
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