Tajikistan

There is now an official date for Tajikistan’s next presidential election: October 11.

Laws put in place to support the fight against COVID-19 by targeting false information are easily abused to crack down on negative opinions and dissent.

Buzurgmehr Yorov bravely took on the defense of the IRPT leadership and, like his clients, lost his freedom.

Issues of feminism and gender activism in Tajik society are controversial.

On May 24, shots were fired in the contentious border area. And reportedly again on May 27. 

Now that Tajikistan has admitted the presence of COVID-19 in the country, the bad news will likely only grow.

The announcement confirms what experts long suspected, but the government denied: the pandemic has arrived in Tajikistan.

Dushanbe’s denials are simply unbelievable; its belated responses to the pandemic “cruel and inept at the same time.”

With his election as chair of the Tajik parliament's upper house, Rustam Emomali is now officially second-in-line to the presidency.

Emomali Rahmon finally joins in on regional telediplomacy with recent calls with the leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been ringing his neighbors to coordinate and dispatching aid to Afghanistan.

Silencing opposition figures, independent voices, and those defending the detained -- a spotlight must be shone on the Tajik government’s human rights record.