News From Tajikistan
During search operations by police on suspicion of fraud was detained 33-year-old resident of Vahdat.
In March 2022, he fraudulently entered into a trust with a 39-year-old resident of the city and took 55,460 somonis from him. . Criminal proceedings have been instituted against him under the provisions of Article 247 part 4 of Tajikistan's Penal Code. An investigation is under way.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan
On April 9, 2022 in the hall of the executive body of the state authority of Khuroson district was held a meeting of the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Khatlon region, Colonel Nozimzoda Fayzullo Vatan with the community of this district.
The meeting was attended by the Chairman of Khuroson district Ahmadzoda Ilhom, police officers, heads of enterprises, organizations and institutions, chairmen of mahallas, clergy, teachers of secondary schools and active youth of the district.
During his speech, the head of the Department on topical issues of society, including issues of education of minors, adolescents and youth, the contribution of youth in the development of society, public awareness on the political and economic situation in the world, the fight against drugs and drug abuse, prevention expressed his views on the negative actions, conflicts and hooliganism among minors and youth, prevention of youth involvement in illegal terrorist and extremist parties and movements, cooperation of law enforcement officers with the public.
It was noted that compliance with the laws of the Republic of Tajikistan "On parental responsibility for training and education of children" and "On the regulation of traditions and celebrations in the Republic of Tajikistan" should be monitored and explanatory work with the population in this area should be further developed. .
The head of the DMIA in Khatlon gave specific instructions to officials on the protection of human and civil rights, the rule of law, prevention of illegal actions, good relations with the public and close contact with civil society, and called on the public to cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
Also today several residents of the district with complaints and appeals were received by the head of this Department and the responsible persons were instructed to consider the appeals of citizens in time.
Such a fruitful meeting with police officers, which is held for the sake of unity, unity and security, was welcomed by the participants.
Ofoq Qodiriyon, lieutenant colonel of militia.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan
Their government still unrecognized by any country in the world, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have found a way to beat international isolation: opening diplomatic ties with neighboring countries and others, with an eye to gaining formal recognition.
In recent months, at least four countries — China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan — have accredited Taliban-appointed diplomats, even though all have refused to recognize the 8-month-old government in Afghanistan.
Last month, Russia became the latest country to establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban when its Foreign Ministry accredited Taliban diplomat Jamal Nasir Gharwal as Afghan charge d'affaires in Moscow.
"We regard this as a step towards the resumption of full-fledged diplomatic contacts," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.
On Saturday, Gharwal took over the embassy, Taliban foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi tweeted. Although Zakharova said it was premature "to talk about official recognition of the Taliban," the move is not sitting well in Washington, where officials are concerned it could confer undeserved legitimacy on the Taliban.
A State Department spokesperson said the U.S. and its allies "remain deeply troubled by recent steps the Taliban have taken, including steps to restrict education and travel for girls and women."
"Now is not the time to take any steps to lend credibility to the Taliban or normalize relations," the spokesperson said in response to a query from VOA. "This move sends the wrong signal to the Taliban."
In the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August, the U.S. and other Western countries shut down their diplomatic posts in Kabul. But they've maintained contact with the group, if only to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into the country and influence Taliban policies.
The countries that have received Taliban diplomats all maintain embassies in Afghanistan.
Ronald Neumann, a former U.S. ambassador to Kabul and the president of the American Academy of Diplomacy, said it was a "mistake" for Russia and other nations to accredit Taliban diplomats while the international community seeks cooperation from the Taliban on a number of fronts.
"When they accredit the diplomats, then they weaken the influence of the pressure that says you have to allow girls' education and you have to cooperate with the NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) to help feed people or you won't get recognition," Neumann said. "So what the Taliban will see is that if they pay no attention to those statements, some states will begin to move toward recognition anyway."
Accrediting a foreign diplomat is not the same as giving formal recognition, Neumann said. But that's not how the Taliban see it.
"In practice, this is the equivalent of recognition, but it is not enough," said Suhail Shaheen, who has been appointed by the Taliban to serve as Afghanistan's envoy to the U.N. "Countries must recognize the Islamic Emirate."
Shaheen, whose appointment has not been endorsed by the U.N., told VOA that about 10 countries have "accepted" Taliban diplomats, including China, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan.
Of those, only four — China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkmenistan — have formally accredited diplomats appointed by the Taliban, according to announcements by Afghan embassies and the foreign ministries of the host countries.
But previously appointed diplomats at Afghanistan's embassies in Iran, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia now follow the Taliban foreign ministry's "instructions," Shaheen said.
"We don't have any problem with anyone who contacts the current government of the Islamic Emirate and follows its instructions," Shaheen said via WhatsApp. "That's what they've done."
Abdul Qayyum Sulaimani, the Afghan charge d'affaires in Tehran and a holdover from the previous government, told reporters in January that he'd received a letter from Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban foreign minister, confirming his status as acting ambassador.
Representatives of the Afghan embassies in Kaula Lumpur and Ryadh could not be reached for comment.
Qatar is a "special case," Neumann said. The Gulf state has long allowed the Taliban to operate a political office in Doha, and it represents some U.S. diplomatic interests in Afghanistan. In November, Muttaqi met with Afghan embassy staff in Doha.
The Qatar Embassy in Washington did not respond to a question about whether the Qatari government had accredited any Taliban diplomats.
Afghanistan maintains 45 embassies and 20 consulates around the world. The majority are still run by diplomats appointed by the government of former President Ashraf Ghani and have refused to work with the Taliban government.
Mohammad Zahir Aghbar, Afghanistan's ambassador to Tajikistan, said Taliban pressure to oust Afghan diplomats won't work.
"No country will let them do that," Aghbar told VOA's Afghan Service.
Tajikistan, which maintains close ties to an anti-Taliban resistance group, is the only Afghanistan neighbor that has refused to allow Taliban officials to visit the Afghan Embassy.
Last week, a senior Taliban foreign ministry official visited an Afghan consulate in neighboring Uzbekistan "to improve and organize the consular affairs of the Afghan consulate" in the border town of Termez, according to a Taliban official.
Last month, Afghanistan's embassy in Washington and its consulates in New York and Los Angeles shut down after running out of money.
Source: Voice of America
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — A court in Russia has nullified the acquittal of a Jehovah’s Witness and sent his case for retrial amid an ongoing crackdown on the followers of the religious group.
The Primorye regional court in Russia’s Far East ruled on April 8 that Dmitry Barmakin’s acquittal in November was wrong, claiming that materials collected by investigators suggest he was involved in the “organization of an extremist group’s activities.”
The court’s decision was made public on April 9.
Barmakin was the first Jehovah’s Witness in Russia who had been acquitted in court of “extremism” charges since the religious denomination was labeled as “extremist” and banned in Russia in 2017.
The court’s ruled at the time that Barmakin “is subject to acquittal due to the absence of corpus delicti [proof of a crime] by the defendant’s actions” just because he had “exercised the right to freedom of religion enshrined in the Constitution of Russia.”
Barmakin was arrested in July 2018 and spent 15 months in pretrial detention before he was released and ordered not to leave Vladivostok.
The charge against Barmakin was based on the testimony of Yekaterina Petrova, a college teacher in Vladivostok, who recorded sessions of Bible studies led by Barmakin. She said she did so on orders from Federal Security Service officers.
The court’s move to acquit Barmakin came a week after the U.S. State Department officially added Russia to its register of the world’s “worst violators” of religious freedoms, a list that includes Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and five other countries.
The blacklisting paves the way for sanctions if the countries included do not improve their records.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses say more than 70 members are currently incarcerated across Russia, while 265 probes have been launched against 574 Jehovah’s Witnesses since 2017.
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In the conference hall of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dushanbe was held an official meeting and summarizing the activities of the State Automobile Inspectorate of Dushanbe under the auspices of the Chief of the Department, Major General of Police Hamidzoda Barotali Partov. The meeting was attended by the management and all employees of the State Automobile Inspectorate of Dushanbe districts.
The head of the Interior Ministry’s office in Dushanbe, Major General Barotali Hamidzoda, summed up the work of each inspector and stressed that traffic police officers are the face of the police. internal affairs bodies are assessed. In this regard, the road inspectors, while providing the service to the drivers and the citizens, should observe the ethics of communication and work round the clock to reveal and eliminate the serious violations of the traffic rules.
As it was mentioned, due to the efforts of the supreme leadership of the country and the Chairman of Dushanbe city Rustam Emomali from year to year the transport service has been improved and the roads of the capital have been reconstructed. However, some drivers, especially the drivers of expensive vehicles and some public transport drivers do not follow the simplest rules of the road and stop for a long time in the second and third rows of the road, inside the parking lot and other unmarked places. This creates chaos on the roads of the capital. In order to eliminate these and other violations, the responsible persons were given specific instructions.
One of the issues discussed during the official consultation was the regulation of public transport services, which has recently been marked by traffic accidents and serious violations of traffic rules by drivers of passenger vehicles. . In order to raise the legal level and mandatory compliance with the rules and requirements of the Rules of the road and municipal ethics, it is planned to conduct a series of inspections and conduct explanatory meetings with drivers of public transport.
During the meeting, the head of the capital’s police also assessed the role of citizens in maintaining order and preventing traffic violations. As it was noted, the citizens closely cooperate with the police and on a daily basis observe the negative actions and take videos and pictures and send them to the Dushanbe police for action. It should be noted that the consideration of complaints and appeals of citizens is under the direct control of the leadership of the Interior Ministry in Dushanbe.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against a 35-year-old resident of Konibodom under the provisions of Article 244 (2) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code. a 69-year-old resident of B. Gafurov district, the thief disappeared from the scene.
The damage is estimated at 10 thousand somoni.
An investigation is under way.
Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan