Tajikistan
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- November 6, 1994
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law; no judicial review of legislative acts
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral Supreme Assembly (Majlisi Oli), composed of the Assembly of Representatives and the National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, judges appointed by the President
RELIGIONS
85% Sunnis, 5% Shiites, 10% other
From the country
- JUNE 24, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik television reported that Tajikistan's Supreme...
Tajik television reported that Tajikistan's Supreme Court had passed sentences on five citizens who had committed "a number of grave crimes," and sentenced to death two of them for the "violent murder of citizen Rahmatullo Rahimov"
- JUNE 1, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
In June 2003 Tajikistan's lower Parliament abolished...
In June 2003 Tajikistan's lower Parliament abolished the death penalty for women
- MARCH 21, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik newspaper Vecherniy Dushanbe reported that...
The Tajik newspaper Vecherniy Dushanbe reported that Tajikistan was considering the abolition of the death penalty for women
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced 11 Islamic...
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced 11 Islamic militants to death and jailed 74 of their comrades after finding them guilty of murder and kidnapping
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Khasan Saidov, 19, was sentenced to death by the Dushanbe...
Khasan Saidov, 19, was sentenced to death by the Dushanbe city court in Takikistan
- JANUARY 27, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tajikistan sentenced a man to death for...
A court in Tajikistan sentenced a man to death for the killing of an employee of a German humanitarian aid organization in the Central Asian nation's capital
- JANUARY 16, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
A court in Dushanbe sentenced Rahim Qalandarov to death
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National...
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Saidamir Zuhurov said in an interview with Asia-Plus that work was under way aimed at reducing the application of capital punishment in Tajikistan, but was quoted as saying that
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister Saidamir Zuhurov told reporters...
Deputy Prime Minister Saidamir Zuhurov told reporters that a public opinion poll on the attitude of citizens towards the possibility of declaring a moratorium on or abolishing capital punishment had been conducted in Tajikistan in 2002
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The first deputy chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court,...
The first deputy chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court, Mahmadali Vatanov declared that the number of death sentences passed in the country in 2002 had decreased compared with previous years
- NOVEMBER 28, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakhstan's Supreme Court sentenced Zarifdzhon Sattorov,...
Kazakhstan's Supreme Court sentenced Zarifdzhon Sattorov, an active member of a terrorist group to death
- NOVEMBER 7, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan cannot abolish the death penalty at present,...
Tajikistan cannot abolish the death penalty at present, an official from the Justice Ministry, Sh