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DUSHANBE, June 30, Asia-Plus  -- Four cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) have been registered in the country this year, Deputy Minister of...

KONIBODOM, June 30, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- A new TV station, TV5, has been launched in the northern city of Konibodom. Television reporter Numon...

The latest edition of Freedom House’s annual assessment of democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union notes the brewing instability that led government forces and armed militants to clash in the latter half of 2010 may continue and intensify in 2011.

DUSHANBE, June 29, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Some 60 topics deemed suitable for sermons are still being considered by the Council of Ulamo (an...

KHUJAND, June 29, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Since the beginning of the year, 167 people, including seven women, have been penalized in Khujand, the...

DUSHANBE, June 29, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- A prominent Tajik religious figure and former deputy prime minister, Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, does not believe that...

Acting Political Counselor at the United States Mission to the OSCE, Patrick Connell, considers that Tajik government’s systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom are considered the threshold required for a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Act of 1998.

Fayziniso Vohidova, a lawyer of Urunboy Usmonov, a reporter for the BBC World Service Central Asian department, says the investigation has failed to produce evidence to prove that her client is member of the Hizb ut-Tahrir group. The BBC reporter is now charged with not reporting the Hizb ut-Tahrir activity.

DUSHANBE, June 28, 2011, Asia-Plus -- On June 27, Secretary Clinton released the Department''s 2011 Report on Trafficking in Persons. The goal of...