Tajikistan: Forcibly Disappeared Opponent Allegedly Tortured

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Suhrob Zafar, year unknown © Guruhi24.com (Berlin, May 3, 2024) – Tajik authorities should immediately confirm the detention and whereabouts of and release the opposition activist Sukhrob Zafar, Human Rights Watch, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and International Partnership for Human Rights said today. Based on a media report and reports from reliable sources, Zafar was forcibly disappeared while in Türkiye in March 2024, despite holding official UNHCR asylum seeker status there. The sources said that the Tajik State Committee on National Security is holding him in…

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