Tajikistan’s courts have become a revolving door for people arrested on suspicion of involvement with pro-autonomy activism in the country’s restive eastern Pamirs region. To make matters worse, few ...

A leading figure in Tajikistan’s Pamiri community who was unlawfully spirited out of Russia in January has been sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of hostage-taking. Witnesses have reported ...

Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of being locked up or even killed, when few outsiders know or even care who you ...

Tajikistan’s authorities systematically discriminate against the Pamiri minority, and grossly violate their rights, through suppression of cultural and religious institutions, political exclusion and ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, together ...

After the May uprisings in Gorno Badakhšan, many inhabitants sought refuge in European countries. Sudden repression of peaceful demonstrators. Protest leader Alovatšiev sentenced to 18 years.

(Berlin, September 3, 2025) – Tajikistan authorities should promptly and impartially investigate the deaths in custody of five ethnic Pamiri activists during 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

It’s a year since Muzaffar Davlatmirov, a respected religious leader in the Gorno-Badakhshan region in Tajikistan, witnessed Tajik state forces brutalise his community as part of a long-running ...

Prominent Pamiri activists and figures have been pursued by the authorities through a variety of means, with those in Russia seemingly at the greatest risk of extradition or rendition. A pair of ...

Amnesty International has urged Tajik authorities to immediately release jailed activists from the Central Asian nation's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), which is home to the community ...

Even the most serious slow food enthusiast might balk at the preparation instructions for one porridge recipe that comes from the Bartang valley, located in the wildest corner of the Pamir mountains ...

The great westward migrations of people from the Eurasian landmass's interior that began several millennia ago still continue today. One of the latest chapters in this long tale is the flight of ...