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Internet users in Tajikistan report that Google services, including YouTube and the Gmail electronic mail system, remain inaccessible, despite protests by international organizations.
Two men have been sentenced to five days in jail in Tajikistan's southern city of Kulob in a case related to an attack against the chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (HNIT), Muhiddin Kabiri.
Internet users in Tajikistan report that they cannot access Google services, including the Gmail electronic mail system, as of June 12.
The OSCE's representative on freedom of the media has urged Tajik authorities to restore access to YouTube.
Tajik police have detained about a dozen protesters who rallied in front of the British Embassy in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
The chairman of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (HNIT), Muhiddin Kabiri, was pelted with eggs and tomatoes on a visit to the southern city of Kulob.
The popular video-sharing website YouTube has been partially blocked in Tajikistan.
Afghan media reports say that police in the northern province of Kunduz have detained two Taliban fighters from neighboring Tajikistan.
Amid an apparent rise in the number of sex workers, the world's oldest profession is becoming a topic of open debate in Tajikistan.
Tajik investigators have arrested an Islamic cleric in a town near the capital, Dushanbe, for allegedly holding religious classes at his home in which students were beaten and tortured.
A top U.S. official has hailed the support provided by Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to international operations in Afghanistan.
A disagreement sparked during an online discussion on the popular Odnoklassniki.ru social network reportedly led to a deadly attack in Tajikistan.
U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal has arrived for talks in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe.
Jailed Tajik businessman Zayd Saidov is facing new embezzlement charges.
Tajik authorities say they are looking into gunfights that sparked antigovernment protests in the remote Gorno-Badakhshan Province. The government blames the violence on local drug dealers. Protest leaders, however, say the latest crisis has much deeper roots in the region that was the scene of deadly clashes in 2012.
A prominent Tajik mullah's criticism of those heading to Syria to fight alongside Islamist rebels has prompted an angry response from a purported Tajik jihadist.
Protesters in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region have left the central square in the regional capital, Khorugh, after civil society activists and authorities agreed on May 25 to investigate last week's deadly shooting followed by violent protests.
Hundreds of protesters in Tajikistan's volatile eastern province of Gorno-Badakhshan spent the night in tents in the center of the regional capital, Khorugh, continuing their effort to convince the government to meet their demands.
The Dushanbe mayor's office is defending a decision to install CCTV cameras in the offices of all civil servants in the Tajik capital.
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