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A dance teacher at a choreography school in Dushanbe has been fired for not listening to President Emomali Rahmon's annual address to the nation on television.
Three police officers in Tajikistan have been detained for allegedly blackmailing a gay man in order to extort money from him.
Failed Uzbek asylum seeker Rakhmat Akilov, accused of carrying out a deadly truck attack in Stockholm last April, had contact with high-ranking Islamic State militants, according to an investigation by RFE/RL's Uzbek and Tajik services with Swedish news agency TT.
The lower chamber of Tajikistan's parliament has approved amendments to the laws on presidential and parliamentary elections -- lowering the eligibility age from 35 to 30 for the presidency and legislative posts in parliament's upper chamber.
More than 30 alleged militants who were pardoned by Tajik authorities after returning home from Iraq and Syria have gone back to the region to rejoin the extremist group Islamic State (IS), police say.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has put the leader of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) on trial in absentia.
Tajikistan law enforcement sources told RFE/RL on January 22 that a Tajik student at Russia' Federal Security Service (FSB) Academy has been detained for allegedly attempting to join the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to visa-free travel between the two Central Asian countries and other border-crossing measures, according to Tajik media.
Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon have discussed bilateral ties between the two Central Asian states at talks in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Officials in Tajikistan say they are investigating the sudden deaths of four residents in the northern city of Khujand following a feast.
The widow of Tajikistan's first elected president, Rahmon Nabiev, has died in a fire at her house in northern Tajikistan.
Officials in Tajikistan and Afghanistan say the main highway connecting the two countries across their mountainous border has been restricted for several days.
A prominent advocate for Tajik migrants who says he has never been a Tajik citizen has been deported from Russia to Tajikistan.
Prominent Tajik journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov has been arrested and charged with embezzlement, inciting hatred, document forgery, and false reporting to police.
Police in Dushanbe have launched an investigation into an assault against Rahmatillo Zoirov, leader of Tajikistan's opposition Social Democratic Party.
The leader of Tajikistan's opposition Social Democratic Party says he has been injured in an attack he believes was politically motivated.
Tajikistan’s state religious committee has ordered local governments to fire many foreign-educated imams in what it calls a bid to prevent extremism.
A group defending gay rights in Tajikistan's northern region of Sughd says it has been forced to stop its operations following a series of inspections by local authorities.
A court official in Tajikistan says prison sentences have been handed down to two brothers and a nephew of Gulmurod Halimov, a fugitive police colonel who joined the extremist group Islamic State (IS).
Tajik authorities have quietly reburied the remains of several prominent figures after digging them up from a small cemetery inside a Dushanbe park. The relatives say they found out about the burials only after they happened.
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