Law-order

24 Criminal Cases Initiated in Northern Tajikistan for Electricity Theft

There have been 238 cases of illegal electricity consumption detected there.

Police officer convicted of torture disappears after sentencing

One of police officers convicted of torture has disappeared after sentencing.  Nobody knows his whereabouts. Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, locally known as Radio Ozodi, says...

Resident of Spitamen district jailed for fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq

A resident of the Spitamen district in the northern Sughd province has got a lengthy jail term for fighting alongside militants of the Islamic...

Dushanbe court sentences four police officers on torture charges

A court in Dushanbe has sentenced a senior Dushanbe police officer and three other officers to time in prison after they were found guilty...

28 Vahdat prison rioters get additional lengthy terms

Twenty-eight inmates of a high-security penal in Vahdat Township have got lengthy jail terms for their roles in a riot that broke out in...

Resident of Dushanbe fined tidy sum for smuggling 26 mobile phones from Dubai

A 29-year-old resident of Dushanbe Dilmurod Asadov, who runs shop at Dushanbe’s Central Department Store (Tsum), has been fined a tidy sum for smuggling...

Parliament endorses amendments prohibiting holding adult and juvenile suspects in one cell

The Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) today endorsed amendments proposed by the government to the country’s law on the procedure and conditions...

Jailed human rights lawyer’s prison term shortened as part of mass amnesty

The 28-year prison sentence of jailed Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov has been shortened as part of a recent mass amnesty. Ilhom Mahmoudov, deputy chief of...

Knife crime prevention operation under way in Tajik capital

A knife crime prevention operation is under way in the Tajik capital. The Interior Ministry’s press center says fourteen young men have been detained over...

Tajik business owners sentenced to prison over fake job recruitment scam

A court in Dushanbe has convicted two private business owners of defrauding more than 200 impoverished Tajiks through a fake job recruitment scheme that...
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