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A Paris-based rights group has urged Turkey to respect the human rights of Tajik opposition politician Umarali Quvatov and three of his associates who were detained in Istanbul last week.
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced four men to prison after convicting them of being adherents of a banned branch of Islam.
The chairman of the Tajik capital's economic court has been arrested for alleged bribe-taking.
The deputy chairman of Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security, Akram Amonov, says some 300 Tajik nationals are fighting alongside militants in Syria including the Islamic state group.
Nongovernmental organizations in Tajikistan are concerned over new legislation that restricts their access to foreign grants.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry has asked Yemeni authorities to secure the release of a female Tajik doctor kidnapped last month in Yemen's Marib province.
Authorities in Tajikistan have arrested 12 men suspected of recruiting residents of the northern province of Sughd to fight alongside Islamic militants in Syria.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon says freedom of speech exists in his country because there are "hundreds" of private media outlets in Tajikistan.
Four Tajik nationals detained in Egypt in September have been charged with having links to the militant group Islamic State.
Some 800 inmates were freed in Tajikistan on November 3, the first releases under a mass amnesty approved by the parliament last week.
A human rights group in Tajikistan has urged the government to compensate families of army conscripts killed in hazing incidents.
A Tajik doctor has gone missing in central Yemen, and local media reports say she may have been abducted by tribal militants.
Tajikistan's parliament has approved an amnesty that will lead to the release of thousands of convicts.
A high-ranking border services officer has reportedly been arrested in Tajikistan in connection with drug trafficking.
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon has submitted to the parliament a draft law on amnesty granting freedom for some 10,000 prisoners.
SMS services across Tajikistan have been shut down as authorities brace for a possible opposition rally in Dushanbe on October 10.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has banned the opposition organization Group 24.
Tajikistan's top police official has called an opposition group that apparently planned an antigovernment demonstration in Dushanbe this week "criminals," while prosecutors have pressed for a ban on the organization and police detained relatives of one if its activists.
Internet users in Tajikistan say hundreds of websites, including Facebook and YouTube, have been inaccessible in the Central Asian country since October 5.
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