Mirzonabi Kholiqzod is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
A Tajik opposition activist who was deported from Germany was arrested immediately upon his arrival in Dushanbe. Dilmurod Erghashev’s supporters fear he will face long-term imprisonment like other opposition activists who were returned to Tajikistan from foreign countries in recent years.
Russian authorities have extradited to Tajikistan the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, according to relatives who spoke with RFE/RL on October 9.
The Tajik government has taken over several properties that belong to the Aga Khan Development Network in the country’s restive Gorno-Badakhshan region. The move comes amid the government’s continued crackdown that intensified following bloody protests in the remote province last year.
A brother of jailed Tajik lawyer Saidnuriddin Shamsiddinov has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges that he rejects.
A court in Kyrgyzstan has handed life sentences to two Tajik nationals over deadly ethnic clashes that erupted earlier this year near a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
Tajik men say they can't get a passport in a beard, seemingly a result of Tajik government efforts attributed to the fights for secularism and against extremism.
Tajikistan's state language committee is recommending that the army stop using Russian military terms and switch to Tajik.
Catcallers in the Tajik capital might want to bite their tongue following the introduction of strict new measures against street harassment.
In the latest round of Tajikistan's effort to influence what its citizens name their children, authorities are set to ban names they deem insulting, demeaning, or foreign to Tajik culture.
Tajik authorities say they are investigating how video clips showing a couple having sex ended up on the Internet. The issue is particularly sensitive since the man who admitted shooting the scene with his wife is a village imam.
