Tajikistan’s Freedom of Expression Shrinks
Journalists get lengthy sentences on charges that rights groups say are groundless.
Journalists get lengthy sentences on charges that rights groups say are groundless.
Complex geography and domestic politics mean a solution remains elusive.
Detentions come amid a crackdown on street protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
Authorities struggle to contain anger over a citizen’s unexplained death in detention.
With authorities remaining tight-lipped, emotions run high in Tajikistan as citizens argue over the ongoing conflict.
An almost unheard job for a woman in the conservative Central Asian country.
Insecurity increases as insurgents appear energised by imminent US withdrawal.
Lengthy prison term handed to elderly man described as political persecution.
Experts’ assumptions that the country’s leader Emomali Rahmon would nominate his son for this election are disproved.
Unlike elsewhere in the world, the authorities have not imposed a quarantine or restricted public events.