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Torture - a shameful phenomenon for law enforcement

In November, the local Media continued actively cover the issues of torture in Tajikistan. Newspapers monitored developments around the death of Hamza Ikromzoda - prisoner who allegedly died from torture, and another focus of Media was presentation of the Government Delegation report to the UN Committee against Torture. On November 7, the online edition of Tojnews agency published the article...

10.12.2012 - 14:22
Who is responsible for the death of Ikromzoda?

Press Review Media of Tajikistan in October 2012. In October of this year, the issue of the death in custody of Ikromzoda Hamza, who died in the end of September in Dushanbe colony # 1, was actively discussed by independent media in the country. In particular, the weekly “Samak” (№ 40 dated from October 1, 2012) published the article “Who is responsible for the death of Ikromzoda?”, which...

03.11.2012 - 08:07
Entrenched practice of torture

Press Review Media in Tajikistan in September 2012. For the first time in Tajikistan police officer had been condemned on charges of torture - an article that appeared in the Criminal Code of the country in March this year. The officer was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment on charges of torture and ill-treatment of 17-year-old boy, who was arrested on suspicion of theft. This news was...

04.10.2012 - 16:02
Subject to torture are not only adults...

On August 8 the website of the news agency “Asia-Plus” reported about the initiation of consideration of the appeal against the court ruling in a criminal case, well known as the “case of 53 Istaravshanies”, which were arrested in the connection with the suicide bomb attack in Sughd Province in 2010 and alleged membership in a banned extremist organization of IMU, who are mostly residents of...

09.09.2012 - 15:09

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