Tajikistan has updated the list of Tajik nationals having contacts with terrorists. Over the past year, the number of persons included on this list has nearly doubled.
The National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) Department for Financial Monitoring has made changes to the list of list of physical and legal entities having contacts with terrorists.
The number of physical entities suspected of having contacts with terrorists and extremists has nearly doubled over the past year – from 1,356 people in early May of 2019 to 2,647 people in early May this year.
At the same time, the separate list of persons having contacts with extremists has been deleted.
Recall, the NBT Department for Financial Monitoring in April 2018 divided the list of Tajik nationals having contacts with terrorists and extremists into two separate lists — the list of Tajik nationals having contacts with terrorists and the list of Tajik nationals having contacts with extremists.
As of April 1, 2018, the list of persons having contacts with terrorists included 1,234 names and the list of persons having contacts with extremists included 122 names.
The NBT has also published the list of groups and movements organizations, which are banned by Tajikistan's Supreme Court as terrorist and extremist organizations. The list includes fifteen organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat-e Islami, Taliban Movement, the Islamic Party of Turkestan, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, Lashkar-e Taiba, Tablighi Jamaat, Al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jabhat al-Nusra, Tojikistoni Ozod (Free Tajikistan), the Religious Missionary Organization Jamaat Ansarullah, Paimoni Millii Tojikiston (National Alliance of Tajikistan) and Group 24.
