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The European Commission has announced a Call for Proposals with an overall objective of contribution to reducing inequalities in Tajikistan, according to the European Union (EU) Delegation to Tajikistan. The Call consists of two lots: Lot 1: Protecting and promoting human rights in Tajikistan, which aims at supporting Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Dr. Nazila Ghanea, will conduct an official visit to Tajikistan from April 11-12, 2023. Press release issued by the UN Human Rights Office says the UN expert will assess freedom of religion or belief, including how it intersects with the rights

Tajik freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov, who was detained by officers of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)’s office in the Tajik northern city of Panjakent on March 6 and to the constitutional order in Tajikistan through the media and or the Internet (Article 307 (2) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code),

PANJAKENT, Tajikistan -- Tajik journalist Khurshed Fozilov, who was arrested last week in the Central Asian country's northeastern city of Panjakent, has been charged with public calls to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order. Fozilov's brother, Khushbakht, told RFE/RL on March 13 that the journalist has rejected the charge and maintains his

Khurshed Fozilov is cahrged with public calls for forcible changes to the constitutional order in the country through the media and or the Internet; photo from social media.The detained freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov is charged with calls for forcible changes to the constitutional order in Tajikistan. His brother Khoushbakht Fozilov told

Tajik freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov; photo from his Facebook page. Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security (SCNS) has detained a freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov in his native city Panjakent in Sughd province on unspecified charges. His relatives told Asia-Plus on March 9 that there are three days already that they have not

PANJAKENT, Tajikistan -- Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security has detained journalist Khurshed Fozilov on unspecified charges in the northeastern city of Panjakent, his mother says. Aziza Numonova told RFE/RL on March 8 that her son had been detained two days earlier at Panajakent's Directorate of Labor, Migration and Employment, where

State institutions held press conferences on the 2022 results from January to February 17 of this year. According to the Decree of the President of the country, state institutions are put to obligation to hold press conference twice a year. How were the press conferences and did journalists get answers

The younger generation of journalists professionally covering events on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border have joined the crew. The results of the work of journalists in the framework of the project "Conflict-sensitive and constructive coverage of events on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border",implemented by NANSMIT (Tajikistan) in cooperation with the international media development organization of