"In one telling sign of the climate of fear that prevails in Tajikistan, only two among the more than a dozen journalists, press freedom advocates, and experts that CPJ met with were willing to speak ...

Women's clothes are high on the government's agenda once again in Tajikistan, where authorities and Islamic leaders are working on new guidelines on what women should wear to work and during their ...

Authorities in Tajikistan have said at least one person was killed during clashes on May 16 between residents and law enforcement in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in the east of the country.

(Berlin, October 6, 2023) – The authorities in Tajikistan have detained relatives of their country’s opposition diaspora members who held protests during President Emomali Rakhmon’s recent visit to ...

In an unprecedented court case that has stunned many Tajiks, eight public figures are being tried in secret in Dushanbe for allegedly seeking to overthrow authoritarian President Emomali Rahmon, who ...

"In 2024, the Tajik government reinforced its crackdown on dissent, jailing public figures, journalists, and bloggers. It also sought the deportation or extradition from other countries of people ...

The security crackdown that the Pamiris of east Tajikistan have nervously been expecting for months finally arrived this week, claiming at least 10 lives already. Many expect the toll to grow by the ...

Tajikistan has launched a national messenger app to rival the likes of WhatsApp, Telegram and others. According to a news agency by Reuters, the app called ORIZ was announced by the Tajik government ...

GENEVA, September 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has protested against the detention and subsequent deportation of nine Afghan refugees from Tajikistan, arguing that these individuals could face ...

This past weekend, the Tajikistan government ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to unblock Facebook, along with several independent news websites. The ban lasted about one week. The first site ...

WASHINGTON, December 22, 2022 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved additional grant financing of $50 million from the Crisis Response window for the Strengthening Resilience ...