Law-order

24 Criminal Cases Initiated in Northern Tajikistan for Electricity Theft

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

Istiqlol traffic police chief arrested for bribery

The chief of the traffic police department of the northern city of Istiqlol (formerly Taboshar) has been arrested for taking bribe. The head of the...

Killers of Tajik teen jailed in St Petersburg

The St Petersburg city court sentenced two local residents to 15 and 7 years in prison respectively on December 4.  The sentence followed their...

Habitual offender detained in Dushanbe for armed robbery

A habitual offender has been detained in Dushanbe for armed robbery. A 40-year-old Munim Azratqulov, known in criminal circles under the nickname ‘Michel’, has been...

Tajikistan toughens punishment for brothel keeping

Deputies of Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) have unanimously voted for amendments proposed by the government to the country’s Penal...

The main suspect in the deadly attack on foreign cyclists in Danghara pleads guilty but does not repent

A prosecutor asked Tajikistan's Supreme Court on November 19 to sentence Hussein Abdusamadov, the main suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists...

Teacher from Dushanbe convicted of trying to recruit students for the ISIS terror group

A teacher of English from Dushanbe has got a lengthy jail term for trying to recruit his students for the Islamic State of Iraq...

Students detained for knifing; three of them hospitalized with stab wounds

Seven young men have been detained in Dushanbe for knifing.  Among them are five students of various higher educational institutions. According to the press center...

Ex-minister’s son gets a jail term of only one year for beating police officer

  A court in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district sentenced Dilovar Gulov, the son of ex-Minster Gul Sherali, to one year in prison on November 2.  The...

Jail term of 18 year for murder of former wife

The Dushanbe city court has sentenced Bobojon Shirinov, who brutally killed his former wife, to 18 years in prison. The sentence followed his conviction on...

Case of police officer who fatally ran over teen in Kulob remitted for re-examination

The case of Saidmumin Islomov, an investigator with the Interior Ministry’s office in Kulob, who fatally ran over the 15-year-old Firdavs Halimov in Kulob,...
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