Tajikistan: Investigate Deaths of Five Pamiri Political Prisoners

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The Tajikistan flag. © 2022 Maksim Konstantinov, Sipa via AP Images (Berlin, September 3, 2025) – Tajikistan authorities should promptly and impartially investigate the deaths in custody of five ethnic Pamiri activists during 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.The deaths highlight grave concerns about the Tajik authorities’ treatment of ethnic Pamiris, a historically persecuted cultural, religious, and linguistic minority. All five men had been detained following the government’s violent crackdown on protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in May…

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