Law-order

QURGHON TEPPA, September 22, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- Three officers from the frontier post “Kokul” deployed in Khatlon province have got log jail terms. ...

QURHGON TEPPA, September 20, Asia-Plus  -- The military court of the Khatlon garrison has begun consideration of criminal proceedings instituted against Major Ilomjon...

QURGHON TEPPA, September 19, 2012, Asia-Plus -- The Supreme Court has upheld the Khatlon regional court’s verdict against Nouriddin Nabotov, the deputy chief...

Ms. Pokizamo Iqbolshoyeva, the mother Sherik Karamkhudoyev, the head of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Khorog, has lodged complaint to President’s Executive Office, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Office of Human Right Ombudsman of the Republic of Tajikistan about the use of torture against her son.

DUSHANBE, September 18, 2012, Asia-Plus -- Amnesty International (AI) welcomes the verdict of the Yovon district court, Khatlon province which found a police...

The charge of causing property damage by deception against Jourabek Okhounov has been dropped and his jail term has been reduced by six months

QURHGOIN TEPPA, September 13, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- One more resident of the village of Qizil Nishon in the Qubodiyon district, Khatlon province has...

DUSHANBE, September 12, 212, Asia-Plus -- The Supreme Court has sentenced fifteen members of banned Islamist group, Jamaat Ansarullah. An official source at...

Sherik Karamkhudoyev, the head of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Khorog, faces charge of the involvement in armed activities against the government forces. His lawyers say they are not allowed to meet their clients.

The article against torture has been used in Tajikistan for the first time. The district police officer from the Yovon district has been sentenced to seven years in prison jailed for use of torture against a suspect.