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Ukraine will not extradite Tajikistan's former Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov to his home country.
Taliban fighters have been reportedly forced out of Afghanistan's Warduj district, which borders Tajikistan.
Three Afghan citizens and a Tajik man have been killed in a hostage-taking incident in Tajikistan's south.
A Tajik opposition figure wanted by Dushanbe for an alleged $1.2 million fraud has reportedly disappeared from a detention center in Dubai.
Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda accuses the three clerics of blaming him for igniting Tajikistan’s deadly civil war in 1990s.
A leader of Tajikistan's ethnic Uzbeks has been missing for several days. Officials with the Interior Affairs Department in Tajikistan's southern region of Khatlon told RFE/RL on March 17 that Salim Shamsiddinov went missing on March 16.
A Dushanbe court has ordered the Tajik Interior Ministry to pay compensation to the widow of a suspect who died after he was allegedly beaten by police.
The Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy, Anvar Azimov, is downplaying his statement regarding Russia's possible plans to introduce a visa regime for citizens of Central Asian countries by 2015.
Tajikistan's parliament have passed new legislation exempting village teachers from compulsory military service.
Tajikistan’s Embassy in Moscow says a note of protest has been sent to Russia’s Foreign Ministry over the detention over a possible health scare of two Tajik airline passengers in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
Tajikistan's Customs Service press secretary Abdurahim Umarov is being treated in a hospital after being severely beating.
A court in Tajikistan has handed long prison terms to two men for the killing of a top security official in Tajikistan’s restive Gorno-Badakhshan region.
A prosecutor has demanded long prison terms for two suspects in the high-profile killing of a top security official in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region.
A popular television channel in Tajikistan's capital has gone off the air after broadcasting an interview with a prominent dissident poet.
A son of the head of Tajikistan's State Railway Company has won a libel case against the weekly newspaper "Imruznews."
U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake has called on Tajikistan's leadership to hold a fair, democratic, and transparent presidential election in November.
Two suspects in the high-profile killing of a top security official have gone on trial in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region.
A court in Dushanbe has sentenced police investigator Abdurahmon Dodov to two years in prison for negligence that caused a suspect's death in custody.
Former Tajik Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov has been detained at Boryspil Airport in Ukraine on an international arrest warrant.
Relatives of Mahmadsharif Nasriddinov told RFE/RL that unnamed sources in the prison said he was severely beaten by prison guards on February 2.
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