(AP) - Tajikistan’s Supreme Court has sentenced dozens of people to prison terms for belonging to a banned Islamic organization.
(more…)
(AP) - Election officials in Tajikistan have declared the governing party the overwhelming winner of parliamentary elections that international observers say were marred by widespread fraud.
(more…)
(AP) - Tajikistan’s main opposition party said Tuesday it plans to sue the Central Asian nation’s elections board amid claims it abetted fraud in this weekend’s parliamentary vote.
(more…)
(AP) - Preliminary results show Tajikistan’s pro-government party winning weekend parliamentary elections by a landslide, officials said Monday, as international monitors and the opposition cited widespread fraud.
(more…)
(AP) - Rampant fraud including ballot-box stuffing and proxy voting marred Tajikistan’s weekend parliamentary elections, international observers said Monday, while the opposition threatened legal challenges.
(more…)
(AP) - Huge posters of Tajikistan’s president adorn the facade of the main polling station in this provincial town, as if to remind voters that he will remain in charge regardless of the outcome of Sunday’s parliamentary election.
(more…)
(AP) - Islam is on the rise in Tajikistan, and the only legally registered Islamic party in former Soviet Central Asia hopes to capitalize on that momentum in Sunday’s parliamentary election.
(more…)
(AFP) - Washington is concerned about lawsuits filed against newspapers in Tajikistan, which critics say are an attempt to muzzle the press ahead of upcoming elections, the US embassy said Wednesday.
(more…)
(AFP) - General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, held talks Monday in Tajikistan with President Emomali Rakhmon on military cooperation in the region.
(more…)
(AFP) - Teachers aged under 50 in Tajikistan can no longer grow beards but are allowed to give their lessons in rain boots, according to new government guidelines published Monday.
(more…)