A New Human Rights Agenda for Tajikistan

Expand A voter casts her ballot during the country's parliamentary election at a polling station in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. © Amir Isaev / Sputnik via AP The parliamentary elections in Tajikistan on March 1 were sadly a predictable affair. Eurasia.net and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported that parties close to authoritarian president Emomali Rakhmon won all the seats in an election marred by irregularities and no space for genuine political pluralism. According to monitors from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the human rights agency of the Organization…

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