Tajikistan: Exiled Activists’ Relatives Detained over Protest

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz receives the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, for the Central Asia Summit in Berlin, September 29, 2023. © 2023 Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Berlin, October 6, 2023) – The authorities in Tajikistan have detained relatives of their country’s opposition diaspora members who held protests during President Emomali Rakhmon’s recent visit to Germany, Human Rights Watch said today. Almost 50 relatives in Tajikistan were detained and questioned. Some were released, but many remain behind bars on unclear charges. “The Tajik…

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