Deputies of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament on June 30 unanimously voted to repeal the legislation allowing agents with the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) to enter people’s homes without permission or obtaining a court order.
Recall, lawmakers in the lower house of parliament in October last year approved the legislation allowing the SCNS officers to enter people’s homes without permission or obtaining a court order.
SCNS chief Saymumin Yatimov at the time described the legislation as a measure of last resort. “Special services employees will only get the right to gain unauthorized entry into the homes of citizens in exceptional cases. For example, when there is the threat of a terrorist act and there is a need to protect the life and health of the population or to seek the release of hostages,” Yatimov told lawmakers.
However, the upper house, or Majlisi Milli, rejected the legislation in mid-February. “It is necessary to clearly set a boundary between the provision of security and the guarantee of citizens’ rights,” said Majlisi Milli speaker Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev, according to EurasiaNet.org.
Meanwhile, a source in Tajik government told Asia-Plus on June 30 that lawmakers had repealed the legislation “because a certain violation of human rights had been made.”
