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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 Wages Renewed Crackdown On Independent Journalists, Bloggers
Tajik authorities have handed down long prison terms to three independent journalists and bloggers in recent days on what media watchdogs say are trumped-up charges. Four other reporters are awaiting ...
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: 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 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: 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: What Tajikistan’s Persecution of Faromuz Irgashev Really Means
In 2020, a 30-year-old Tajik lawyer from Tajikistan’s eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) declared his intention to run in the then-upcoming presidential election. Faromuz Irgashev was ...