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Relatives Say Dead Tajik Inmate Was Tortured

Relatives of an inmate who died this week in the central detention center in Dushanbe claim that 27-year-old Hamza Ikromzoda was tortured.  Ikromzoda's body was handed to his relatives on September 21. The relatives say the body carries traces of torture, including burns caused by a heated iron. The detention center's officials did not explain the cause of Ikromzoda's death, while...

22.09.2012 - 12:00
Karamkhudoyev’s mother lodges complaint about the use of torture against her son

Ms. Pokizamo Iqbolshoyeva, the mother Sherik Karamkhudoyev, the head of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP)’s organization for Khorog, has lodged complaint to President’s Executive Office, the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the Office of Human Right Ombudsman of the Republic of Tajikistan about the use of torture against her son. In her letter, Ms. Iqbolshoyeva notes that she has applied to them...

20.09.2012 - 15:11
Tajikistan: Police inspector sentenced for torture of teenage boy

Amnesty International welcomes the verdict of the Yavan District Court, Khatlon region which found a police inspector (of the Department of Internal Affairs) guilty of torture (under Article 143.1 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan). The police inspector was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for torturing and ill-treating a 17 year old boy (whose name is known to Amnesty...

17.09.2012 - 16:38
Police officer in Yovon district jailed for torture

The article against torture has been used in Tajikistan for the first time. The district police officer from the Yovon district Mashraf Aliyev has been sentenced to seven years in prison for use of torture against a suspect. A court in the Yovon district, Khalton province sentenced the district police officer Mashraf Aliyev to seven years in prison on September 6.  The sentence...

11.09.2012 - 10:17
Human rights activists call on Rahmon to take measures against torture

The Coalition of NGOs against Torture -- which consists of several independent law consultancy groups – has called on President Emomali Rahmon to join public censure of torture and officially declare zero tolerance against torture in the country. An appeal made by the Coalition to President Rahmon on June 26 on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, in...

15.08.2012 - 12:11
Suspect in murder of president’s relative claims innocence

D.K., who was arrested on July 13 on suspicion of the murder of president’s brother-in-law Kholmumin Safarov, has repudiated his previous testimony. D.K.’s lawyers told this Asia-Plus today.  According to them, their client made that statement on July 26 during investigative action in the territory of the Dushanbe police temporary detention facility. The lawyers say D.K. was tortured...

27.07.2012 - 15:14
Trial of police officer charged with use of torture opens in Yovon

The trial of Mashraf Aliyev, the district police officers from the Yovon district, began in a court in Khatlon’s Yovon district on July 25. We will recall that criminal proceedings have been instituted against Aliyev under the provisions of three articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 143' – torture; Article 109 – driving to suicide; and Article 316 – misuse of powers. On April 29...

26.07.2012 - 14:58
“Murder suspect” reportedly tortured to confess

Amnesty International (AI) reports that a 45-year-old man, who was arrested on July 13 on suspicion of the murder of President Rahmon’s brother-in-law, is now in police custody in the capital, Dushanbe, where witnesses say he has been tortured and otherwise ill-treated to force him to confess. The husband of President Rahmon’s elder sister was found dead on June 13: he had been shot several...

25.07.2012 - 12:01
UN Committee Against Torture prepares list of issues to be considered by Tajik government

\The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) has prepared the list of issues to be considered in connection with the consideration of the second periodic report of Tajikistan. Ms. Nigina Bahriyeva, the head of the Nota Bene Public Association, says the list includes issues related to the fulfillment by Tajikistan of its obligations on preventing torture and ill-treatment. The Committee, in...

23.07.2012 - 14:48
Tajik law enforcement authorities take measures to prevent the use of torture

Tajik law enforcement authorities are taking measures to prevent the use of torture and other ill-treatment by security officials. In a report released at a roundtable in Dushanbe, Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov noted that on July 13 that a new position – an assistant to chief of police department for interaction with the public -- has been introduced in police stations in all cities and...

13.07.2012 - 18:13

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