Alovatshoyev in the video confession broadcast on state television. A leading figure in Tajikistan’s Pamiri community who was unlawfully spirited out of Russia in January has been sentenced to 18 ...

By Bruce Pannier The painful losses continue to mount up for the Pamiri people of eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). Ever since May 2022, when the Tajik government ...

Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov. (Photo: State media) Residents in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region have told Eurasianet that an influential local leader who was the target of a major security ...

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 central government's attempt to eliminate former Pamiri field commanders of the UTO as political and economic actors and thereby impose its own monopoly on power in GBAO culminated in a massive ...

At least 21 civilians were killed. Dushanbe claimed it had undertaken an “anti-terrorism operation” but for many observers, it was a clear crackdown on Pamiri leaders, journalists, and activists.