Tajikistan: Activist Forcibly Returned from Russia

Expand Opposition figure Sharoffidin Gadoev at a meeting with his relatives in the presence of Tajik Interior Ministry officials in Dushanbe on February 15. © 2019 Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry (New York) – Tajik and Russian officials arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Tajikistan a peaceful opposition activist while he was visiting Moscow, the Association of Central Asian Migrants, Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Human Rights Watch, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said today.  The activist, Sharofiddin Gadoev, is being held in Tajikistan. The government has issued…

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