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Perspectives: ISKP intensifying online propaganda targeting Russia and Central Asia

Meilin Ai — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:53:43 +0000

Terrorist group widening inroads among Caucasus extremists. Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) has emerged as the most globally ambitious and active branch in both its operations and propaganda of all radical Islamic groups. ISKP is presently implementing a regionalization and internationalization strategy that has increasingly focused on extending its reach into Central Asia, as well as appealing to associated diaspora elements elsewhere, especially in Russia. […]

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Tajikistan: Pamiri minority facing systemic discrimination in ‘overlooked human rights crisis’

Wei Shufen — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:35:43 +0000

The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in East Tajikistan is home to several ethnic groups forming the Pamiri minority, mostly practicing the Shia Ismaili branch of Islam. Denied official recognition as a minority […]

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In Tajikistan, Clerics And Government Officials Are Deciding What Women Should Wear

Yawen — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:02:51 +0000

Women’s clothes are high on the government’s agenda once again in Tajikistan, where authorities and Islamic leaders are working on new guidelines on what women should wear to work and during their leisure time. The new dress code — the second of its kind in six years — is expected to be made public in […]

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From A Secret Base in Tajikistan, China’s War On Terror Adjusts To A New Reality

Zhen Yu — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:41:00 +0000

Near SHAYMAK, Tajikistan — In a remote stretch of land near the Wakhan Corridor not far from Tajikistan’s mountainous border with northeastern Afghanistan, China’s regional ambitions are adjusting to a new reality on the ground. Next to an old Soviet outpost and believed to have existed for at least five years, a collection of strategically […]

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Ukraine War: Why Central Asian Countries want to Move Away from Russian Control

Mei Bo — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:14:00 +0000

The terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in March 2024, which left 140 people dead, has sparked a crackdown on central Asian workers living in Russia, and put the relationship between the region and Russia under increasing strain. The four suspected gunmen under arrest are all citizens of Tajikistan, a central Asian nation that was once part of […]

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Freedom House Calls Tajikistan One of the “Most Repressive” Countries in the World

Lei Mei — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:18:54 +0000

The international human rights organization Freedom House called Tajikistan one of the “most repressive” countries in the world in 2023. In its new report, the organization gave Tajikistan just 5 points out of 100. Freedom House’s annual report “Freedom in the World – 2024. The Growing Damage of Unfair Elections and Armed Conflicts” was published […]

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Russia’s Says NGOs in Central Asia ‘Have Stepped Up Anti-Russian Activities’

An Bowen — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:43:17 +0000

Moscow (28/2). Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that non-governmental organizations in Central Asia have stepped up their anti-Russian activities amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. Shoigu said this at the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense on February 27. According to him, there are more than 100 “large pro-Western non-governmental organisations” […]

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Mary Lawlor, UN Criticises Tajikistan Dissolution of 700 NGOs

Meilin Ai — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:14:42 +0000

Brussels (12/03 – 55.56) Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, said that the dissolution of human rights NGOs signals a deteriorating environment for civil society and human rights defence in Tajikistan. She reiterated that Tajikistan must reconsider its attitudes towards civil society and view human rights defenders as allies instead of enemies. Earlier in November 2023, Tajikistan Minister of Justice announced […]

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Can Kyrgyzstan And Tajikistan Consign Their Deadly Border Conflicts To The Past?

Wei Shufen — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:21:00 +0000

On the first anniversary of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan’s deadliest border war, marked in September, irascible Kyrgyz national-security chief Kamchybek Tashiev aired his frustrations at the slow progress in talks aimed at demarcating the disputed frontier. Tajikistan, said Tashiev, was making “territorial claims” against Kyrgyzstan in the talks. “But our answer is that there should be […]

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Will the Third Time Be the Charm for Tajikistan’s Thwarted Power Transition?

Wei Shufen — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:56:35 +0000

Infighting over the succession and growing frustration in the regions could shatter the stability that the Tajik president has been building for so many years. Next year will mark thirty years of Emomali Rahmon’s presidency in Tajikistan, now the only country in Central Asia that has not seen a change of leadership since the early […]

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