A BBC World Service journalist is on trial in Tajikistan, accused of membership in Hizbut-Tahrir(Party of Liberation), a banned group that advocates the creation of a pan-Islamic caliphate that would rule all Muslim states. Here is more from Trend, discussing the
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Two Men Identified In Murder of Russian Journalist
Tajikistani officials say they believe they have identified two men who murdered Russian journalist Ilyas Shurpayev in March. The two men admit entering Mr. Shurpayev’s apartment to rob and kill him. Read more here.
Polygamy Reappears in Tajikistan
By Family Law
"Gulya Ismoilova cannot say exactly when men in Tajikistan broke with a century of tradition and began taking second and even third wives, but she remembers precisely when her husband announced he had married again. “Two years ago he took…