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Nongovernmental organizations in Tajikistan are concerned over new legislation that restricts their access to foreign grants.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has asked Yemeni authorities to secure the release of a female Tajik doctor kidnapped last month in Yemen's Marib province.
Authorities in Tajikistan have arrested 12 men suspected of recruiting residents of the northern province of Sughd to fight alongside Islamic militants in Syria.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon says freedom of speech exists in his country because there are "hundreds" of private media outlets in Tajikistan.
Four Tajik nationals detained in Egypt in September have been charged with having links to the militant group Islamic State.
Some 800 inmates were freed in Tajikistan on November 3, the first releases under a mass amnesty approved by the parliament last week.
A human rights group in Tajikistan has urged the government to compensate families of army conscripts killed in hazing incidents.
A Tajik doctor has gone missing in central Yemen, and local media reports say she may have been abducted by tribal militants.
Tajikistan's parliament has approved an amnesty that will lead to the release of thousands of convicts.
A high-ranking border services officer has reportedly been arrested in Tajikistan in connection with drug trafficking.
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon has submitted to the parliament a draft law on amnesty granting freedom for some 10,000 prisoners.
SMS services across Tajikistan have been shut down as authorities brace for a possible opposition rally in Dushanbe on October 10.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has banned the opposition organization Group 24.
Tajikistan's top police official has called an opposition group that apparently planned an antigovernment demonstration in Dushanbe this week "criminals," while prosecutors have pressed for a ban on the organization and police detained relatives of one if its activists.
Internet users in Tajikistan say hundreds of websites, including Facebook and YouTube, have been inaccessible in the Central Asian country since October 5.
Central Asian governments are trying to prevent young men from evading mandatory military service during autumn conscription campaigns that began on October 1.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced two ethnic Uzbeks from Tajikistan's southern Khatlon province to nine years in jail for fighting in Afghanistan as Taliban members.
Tajik nongovernmental organizations and independent journalists have voiced concern with a fatwa by Tajikistan's Ulemas (Islamic clerics) Council barring Muslims from "cooperation with destabilizing media outlets" and criticizing the government.
Tajikistan's top Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against criticizing the regime of President Emomali Rahmon.
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