Tajikistan Allows Another Family to Reunite

For the second time this month, Tajikistan’s government has allowed a child of exiled dissidents to leave the country and re-unite with their family living abroad. Expand Tajik authorities have placed 10-year-old Fatima Davlyatova, daughter of peaceful political activist, Shabnam Khudoydodova, on a watch list and prevented her from leaving to Europe to reunite with her mother. © Khudoydodova family The children – Ibrohim Hamza, aged 4 and Fatima Davlyatova, aged 10 – are unrelated apart from one thing: They had effectively been held hostage for years—banned from leaving the country since…

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