Four Tajik vloggers are facing criminal charges after secretly filming sex workers for a video report trying to help stop prostitution.
Tajik authorities have transferred dozens of Afghan convicts to their home country to serve their sentences there, officials say.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, have met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh. Violence erupted there on July 22 after Tajiks reportedly raised their national flags on the road which connects the Vorukh exclave with the main territory of Tajikistan.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyz counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov have met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh as they look to ease tensions in the region.
Police in Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken region on the border with Tajikistan say three officers have been injured in clashes with local residents as officials meet to ease tensions after a deadly incident in the area between Kyrgyz and Tajik nationals.
Deadly violence along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border came as their presidents plan to meet nearby to discuss border demarcation and tensions.
One-hundred fifty women and children were evacuated from a village in southern Kyrgyzstan over a simmering conflict near the Vorukh Tajik border, Interfax reported on July 23.
Tajikistan's Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon has rejected claims by relatives of 14 inmates whose deaths were announced last week that the men had been tortured.
Torrential rains have caused severe flooding in Tajikistan. Dramatic amateur video on July 14, said to be from the village of Yozgand in the Sangvor district shows muddy floodwaters sweeping away a bridge. Officials said dozens of roads and hundreds of hectares of crops have been destroyed.
Tajik authorities say they are probing the deaths of 14 inmates who allegedly died of food poisoning. Some of the dead prisoners' relatives, however, say the bodies showed signs of beatings.
Fourteen prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan's northern Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7.
The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini met with the foreign ministers of post-Soviet Central Asian countries on July 7. The top diplomats from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan got together in the latter country's capital, Bishkek.
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