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In what has been billed as a first in Tajikistan, a former jihadist has publicly expressed remorse for joining Islamist militants in Syria.
A military court in Tajikistan has convicted six Interior Ministry soldiers of hazing and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from two to 2 1/2 years, sentences their own lawyers said were shorter than the legal minimum.
Seventeen civilian support staff at a Russian military base in southern Tajikistan say they've been fired after protesting about unpaid wages.
Authorities in Tajikistan have detained a Turkish citizen of Afghan origin on suspicion of recruiting for the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
A court in the Sughd region of northern Tajikistan has sentenced 10 local men to 8 1/2 years in jail each after convicting them of being members of a banned Islamic group.
A court in the northern Tajikistan has sentenced two women to prison for human trafficking and forcing women into prostitution.
Two Tajik police officers have been reprimanded for forcing Muslims to shave their beards, and have been warned of harsher consequences if complaints by Muslims continue.
Local officials say an anonymous letter demanding female teachers quit their jobs or face death has been left at a school in the eastern Tajik district of Rasht, a former stronghold of the Islamic opposition in the Central Asian nation.
A retired senior regional police officer in Tajikistan, Colonel Jumahon Muhtorov, says his son has been killed while fighting alongside Islamic militants in Syria.
Dozens of local civilian support staff at a Russian military base in Tajikistan are protesting, saying they haven't received their wages in six months.
Many in the Central Asian country believe the ban is an attempt to prevent young Tajiks from developing radical ideas and joining extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS).
The chairman of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security, Saimumin Yatimov, has accused nongovernmental organizations of posing a threat to the Central Asian nation's security.
Two Tajik activists have been imprisoned for ties with a banned political opposition group.
Mudslides have killed at least 10 in a an area just of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Foreign Ministers from a Russian-dominated regional security alliance held talks in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, on April 2.
Tajik courts have sentenced 11 men to prison terms of up to 17 years after convicting them of membership in a banned Islamic group.
Two top officials at Tajikistan's State Agency for Drugs Control (OGMM) have been detained on suspicion of bribe-taking.
Imams at several mosques across Tajikistan have urged Muslims to support the closure of the Islamic Renaissance Party, calling for a referendum to dissolve the only officially registered Islamic party in former Soviet Central Asia.
Tajik officials say they have asked Russian authorities to help evacuate some 100 Tajik medical workers and their families from Yemen as a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes there.
Tajikistan has begun the construction of a brand new town in a desert area in the country's north to provide housing and jobs for local residents.
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