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February 6, 2026

Tajikistan: more than 400 women serving prison sentences

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Pre-trial detention Women Asia Tajikistan

More than 400 women are currently serving their jail terms in a women’s penal colony in Nurek, according to Ms. Bunafsha Fayziddinzoda, Chairperson of the Committee on Women and Family Affairs under the government.

February 6, 2026

Tajikistan: why former incarcerated people struggle to start over

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Women Asia Rehabilitation Tajikistan

Release from prison does not mean a return to normal life. A lack of documents, difficulties finding work and housing, and deep-rooted social stigma turn the reintegration of former incarcerated people into a serious challenge.

November 4, 2025

Tajikistan: jailed journalist transferred to Dushanbe-based prison No.1, still awaiting surgery

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Asia Health Torture Social ties Tajikistan

The health condition of imprisoned journalist Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda continues to raise serious concerns. He was recently transferred from a penal colony to a high-security prison, but the urgent surgery he needs has not yet been performed.

October 3, 2025

Tajikistan: ombudsman inspects prison conditions in Vahdat

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Asia Health Material conditions Overcrowding Tajikistan

On September 24, Tajikistan’s Ombudsman, Umed Bobozoda, visited the YS 3/1 correctional facility in Vahdat to inspect the conditions under which incarcerated people are held.

September 25, 2025

Tajikistan: authorities explain why jailed journalist was denied surgery outside prison

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Asia Health Social ties Tajikistan

The Main Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sentences (GUIN) at the Ministry of Justice of Tajikistan has explained why imprisoned journalist Abdussattor Pirmuhammadzoda was not allowed to undergo surgery outside the prison system.

September 12, 2025

Tajikistan: journalist Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzod's health deteriorated in prison, relatives demand urgent help

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Asia Health Social ties Tajikistan

Relatives of Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzod, a Tajik journalist, report that they have not received information about his condition for the past six months. Two months ago, they complained that they had not received any news about his health and could not meet with him in Khujand prison.

July 3, 2025

Tajikistan: denial of "qualified medical care" led to Ismaili leader’s prison death?

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Asia Health Religion Tajikistan

Nearly three years into his five-year prison sentence, prisoner of conscience Muzaffar Davlatmirov, a leading Ismaili Muslim khalifa (cleric) from Mountainous Badakhshan, has died in prison. He died of poor health in the labour camp at Yavan in Khatlon Region.

April 9, 2025

Preventing torture in Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Advancing fundamental rights: strengthening civil society, preventing torture, and transforming prisons for human rights in Tajikistan

March 6, 2025

Tajikistan: international human rights activists demand release of journalist Rukhshona Khakimova

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Women Asia Tajikistan

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has strongly condemned the sentencing of Tajik journalist Rukhshona Khakimova, calling on Tajik authorities to release her immediately and unconditionally.

September 5, 2022

Tajikistan: autonomous region protesters denied fair trials

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Middle East Justice Tajikistan

Dozens of residents of an autonomous region in Tajikistan detained since May 2022 protests are facing closed, unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. Defendants are being tried on serious charges often without access to lawyers or the evidence against them in violation of their due process ri…

July 8, 2019

Tajikistan: food poisoning kills 14 prison inmates

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Material conditions Tajikistan

Tajikistan has opened a criminal investigation after 14 prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan’s northern Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7.

June 11, 2019

Tajikistan: Submission to UN Human Rights Committee's Review

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Justice Tajikistan

This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Tajikistan, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) in advance of its pre-sessional review of Tajikistan in July 2019. We hope it will inform the…

May 26, 2019

Tajikistan: activist gives rare glimpse of Tajik prison where deadly violence occurred

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Violence Tajikistan

Azamat Shambilov is one of few outsiders to have visited Tajikistan’s Kirpichniy prison before it became the scene of a deadly riot this week.