Police are enforcing an unwritten moral code that applies only to women. Public shaming is an ever-reliable weapon in Tajikistan’s toolkit for silencing...
Central Asia
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) shows economic recovery despite the global crisis, said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during an Oct. 28 meeting...
Tajikistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, only to plunge immediately into a bloody civil war. The armed conflict between pro-government...
It’s perhaps not surprising that Tajikistan, which shares a poorly guarded, 750-mile border with opium-rich Afghanistan, has become a major global drug...
The execution of British-Iranian man Alireza Akbari, who had been sentenced to death, has been widely condemned. The ex-deputy Iranian defence minister was...
