TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2023
Tajikistan: Human rights defender Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov must be immediately released
Nowruz celebrations for the Persian New Year this March gave no cause for rejoicing for Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov and his family, as he remains behind...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
NGOs urge Tajikistan to release independent journalist and human rights defender Khurshed Fozilov
Oslo, Brussels, Stockholm, Dublin, Warsaw,
24 March 2023
The government of Tajikistan should immediately release independent journalist and human rights defender Khurshed Fozilov and cease...
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Central Asia: Global report documents alarming civic space trends
The CIVICUS Monitor has released its annual, global report People Power Under Attack (PPUA), which examines threats and trends facing civil society across the world in...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
Tajikistan sinks to worst rating in new global report on civic freedoms
Tajikistan downgraded from ‘repressed’ to ‘closed’
Authorities suppress protests in GBAO region, through excessive and lethal force
A widening crackdown on dissenting voices,...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2023
Tajikistan: Continuous crackdown on civil society
This report, which covers developments affecting the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Tajikistan for the period from August 2022 to March...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2023
Tajikistan: well-known human rights NGO liquidated by court order
In another blow to civil society in Tajikistan, the Independent Center for Human Rights Protection (ICHRP) has been liquidated by court order on spurious...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesDecember 2022
Tajikistan: Human rights defenders and journalists sentenced to long prison terms on politically motivated...
“Human rights defenders are not the enemy”. Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, 9 December 2022
Helsinki Foundation for...
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Central Asia: EU top official urged to raise key human rights issues during visit...
This week, Charles Michel, President of the European Council – which is comprised of the heads of the EU Member States – will visit...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2022
Tajikistan: Politically motivated trials of human rights defenders and journalists behind closed doors
The trials of several human rights defenders and journalists, who have been charged with various criminal offenses in apparent retaliation for their criticism of...
TajikistanReports & Briefing PapersSeptember 2022
Tajikistan: Escalating tensions & crackdown on human rights defenders & journalists
This report, which covers developments affecting the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Tajikistan for the period from July 2021 to July...