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In mid-May 2022, the Tajik government initiated a brutal crackdown on the people of eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region: the Pamiris. Pamiris are ethnically and culturally distinct from ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan: Rights group documents persistent abuses in mountainous autonomous region
A leading rights watchdog group has released a report documenting an ongoing government crackdown on the poorest of the poor in Central Asia’s least economically developed state. Persistent repression ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan: Pamiri Minority Facing Systemic Discrimination in ‘Overlooked Human Rights Crisis’
The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Civil Society The Biggest Casualty Of Crackdowns In Tajikistan And Uzbekistan's Autonomous Regions
ALMATY -- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan last year waged deadly crackdowns to crush protests that erupted in the autonomous regions of the Central Asian nations. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan systematically violates rights of Pamiri minority: Amnesty International
Tajikistan’s authorities systematically discriminate against the Pamiri minority, and grossly violate their rights, through suppression of cultural and religious institutions, political exclusion and ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan’s Pamirs: A Perfect Political Storm on the Roof of the World
Mighty Panj River, seen from the Tajik side. The rugged Pamir Mountains has been the target for strategic military ground for numerous empires throughout the years, and the Mujahideen used the ranges ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Is Central Asia About to Get a New Country?
Gorno-Badakhshan - which occupies 45% of Tajikistan’s land but is home to just 2% of its population is remote, isolated, historically semi-independent, and culturally very different from the rest of ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan and the Taliban: A Lone Voice in Central Asia
On September 2, 2023, on the orders of President Emomali Rahmon, border markets in Khorog, Darvaz, Vanj, and Ishkashim districts of Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region opened for business with ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region to become major tourism center - Tajik president
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News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: Tajikistan commissions new facilities across Gorno-Badakhshan
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 28. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon remotely commissioned 90 facilities of various purposes across the city and districts of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Culture: I Took a Trip Down Tajikistan’s ‘Heroin Highway’
Beginning in the Kyrgyz city of Osh, the Pamir Highway runs the length of Tajikistan, stretches through Uzbekistan and terminates in Afghanistan. Ninety tons of heroin are trafficked through ...