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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The 28-year prison sentence of jailed Tajik lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov has been shortened as part of a recent mass amnesty in Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Four Kazakh activists have been sentenced to one year of freedom limitation — a sentence with parole-like restrictions — for supporting a banned opposition movement, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Belarusian authorities have decided not to extradite opposition activist and journalist Farhod Odinaev to his native Tajikistan, where he is wanted for alleged membership in a banned organization and supporting extremism, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan's Supreme Court has labeled the National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT) — a group uniting several opposition movements and parties based in the European Union — as a terrorist and extremist organization, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Eleven human rights groups have urged Belarus not to forcibly return an independent Tajik journalist and political opposition activist, Farhod Odinaev, to Tajikistan, where they say he “risks torture or other ill-treatment”. Continue reading
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Police in Kazakhstan have broken up opposition rallies in several cities, including the capital Nur-Sultan, detaining dozens, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Continue reading
