The relatives of Babajon Karaboev, a Tajik man who was arrested in Germany on suspicion of being a member of the IS militant group, say they have lost contact with him for almost a month.
Tajik Prosecutor-General's Office said on July 19 the Supreme Court had banned the Pamir Daily News website, which monitors developments in Tajikistan's volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO), after labeling it extremist.
A well-connected Tajik banker has been missing since June with officials saying he was kidnapped and killed by a criminal group that includes former law-enforcement officers.
Seven people have been detained in western Germany on suspicion of forming an Islamist terrorist cell, prosecutors said on July 6.
At least four people have been detained in Tajikistan in connection with the June 23 abduction and disappearance of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the country's leading banks, sources told RFE/RL on July 2.
Authorities in Tajikistan on July 1 said the man who allegedly opened fire and killed two security personnel at Moldova’s main international airport is a Tajik national who is suspected of being in an “organized criminal group” that is believed to have kidnapped a bank official a week ago.
A Chinese climate-observation station in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan has led to speculation it could be used for surveillance and security. Analysts agree it has such potential, though it appears to be part of a Chinese effort to gain an edge for a new technological frontier.
Russian authorities have arrested Tajik activist Junaidullo Khudoyorov at Tajikistan's request, his brother told RFE/RL on June 25, adding that the activist may face illegal incarceration and arbitrary prosecution if extradited to Dushanbe.
The Tajik Prosecutor-General's Office said on June 26 that it had launched a probe into the suspected abduction of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the Central Asian nation’s leading banks.
Concert organizers in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have canceled two Russian singers' performances -- one who opposes Russia’s war in Ukraine and another who supports it.
Police in Istanbul say they detained Tajik citizen Shamil Hukumatov on June 22 on suspicion of being a leader of the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) extremist organization.
Poland has deported Tajik national Sorbon Abdurahimzoda to Dushanbe despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) forbidding the move, Abdurahimzoda's lawyer, Bogumil Zygmont, told RFE/RL on June 23.
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