Being married to a stranger at fourteen or fifteen, being raped, beaten and humiliated by her husband and his relatives, and giving birth to her first child a...
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A high-profile trial in Kazakhstan is highlighting the entrenched problem of domestic violence in the country. The court proceedings against former Minister of...
Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence...
Kutmanova says that she was sidelined because she objected to a contentious mining project. Late last week, Dinara Kutmanova, a former top official in...
The mastermind of the deadly Dasu attack, a notorious Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader, has been killed in the Kunar region of Afghanistan, it emerged...
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, in their latest trampling of women’s rights, have ordered the closure of beauty salons across the nation, eliminating...
Tajik authorities have detained another brother of Tolib Ayombekov, the jailed informal leader of Tajikistan’s volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO)...
It’s perhaps not surprising that Tajikistan, which shares a poorly guarded, 750-mile border with opium-rich Afghanistan, has become a major global drug...
DUSHANBE — A prosecutor has asked a court in Dushanbe to convict and sentence Tajik blogger Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda to seven years in prison on...
New York (15 December 2022 – 33). Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakhstan citizen, was found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering in the U.S. Court for $218...