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The website of RFE/RL's Tajik Service, Ozodi.org, has been blocked on the Internet in Tajikistan since late on November 29.
The website of RFE/RL's Tajik Service appears to be blocked on the Internet in Tajikistan.
A number of Internet providers in Tajikistan have blocked access to the Facebook social network.
The chief of a Dushanbe-based company involved in arranging Tajik labor migrants' trips to Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Tajikistan's nongovernmental organization Coalition Against Torture has issued a statement demanding investigations into the alleged mass beatings of prison inmates.
A military court in Tajikistan's southern region of Khatlon has sentenced five Border Guard Service officers to prison terms of between three and 21 years.
The Europe-based International Crisis Group (ICG), a private think tank, has denied claims that its recent report on Afghanistan was "politically motivated."
Tajikistan's presidential press service says President Emomali Rahmon called his Uzbek counterpart, Islam Karimov, on October 29 to mark the 20th anniversary of Tajik-Uzbek diplomatic ties.
A court in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand has shut down a human rights group, saying it operated without a proper license.
Tajikistan's embassy in Moscow is harshly criticizing the publishers of a controversial manual on labor migrants to Russia, calling the document a "provocation."
The new U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan says the recent agreement between Dushanbe and Moscow to extend the presence of a Russian military base will not affect Washington's ties with Tajikistan.
A group of European ambassadors in Dushanbe visited Tajikistan's eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan, the scene of a recent bloody military operation.
Tajikistan's Education Ministry has instructed the heads of all universities in the country to ban students from attending seminars, workshops, and other gatherings organized by foreign and international groups.
Tajikistan's state-run airline TajikAir has joined other airlines in suspending flights to Tehran due to the devaluation of the Iranian national currency, the rial.
Two Tajik pilgrims, who headed off for Mecca by foot in May, have said they have been detained before entering Saudi Arabia.
Russian ground forces commander General Vladimir Churkin has the Ekho Moskvy radio station that a deal extending Russian forces' use of bases in Tajikistan would not be ready to sign until the first half of 2013.
Tajikistan's Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov says militants who give up their arms and cooperate with investigators will not face prosecution.
Relatives of an inmate who died this week in the central detention center in Dushanbe claim that 27-year-old Hamza Ikromzoda was tortured.
Tajikistan's president, Emomali Rahmon, has started a working visit to the country's restive eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan, weeks after a special operation there by security forces left some 70 people dead.
About 50 local residents have blocked a highway connecting Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Osh with neighboring Tajikistan, in a protest over exports of gasoline the protesters say is needed in Kyrgyzstan.
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