Tajikistan: Activist Forcibly Returned From Turkey

Expand IRPT activist Namunjon Sharipov in Istanbul, Turkey. On February 16, 2018, Tajik officials, with the apparent acquiescence of Turkish authorities, forcibly and extra-judicially returned him from Istanbul to Tajikistan, where he faces torture and other ill-treatment. © 2016 Sharipov family (Bishkek) – Tajik officials, with the apparent acquiescence of Turkish authorities, have forcibly and extra-judicially returned a political activist from Istanbul to Tajikistan, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said today. The activist, Namunjon Sharipov, faces a real risk of…

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