Tajikistan
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Moratorium on executions
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or...
- News items in the archive
- 133
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Tajikistan is classified as Moratorium on executions in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 133 news items on Tajikistan, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- JULY 8, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The upper house of the Tajik parliament, the National...
The upper house of the Tajik parliament, the National Assembly, endorsed a new law implementing a moratorium on the death penalty in the country and replacing capital punishment with a prison term
- JUNE 16, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The European Union issued a press release regarding...
The European Union issued a press release regarding progress in Tajikistan towards a moratorium on the death penalty
- JUNE 10, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 2, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament passed a moratorium...
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament passed a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty in the country
- MAY 7, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistani President Emomali Rakhmonov submitted for...
Tajikistani President Emomali Rakhmonov submitted for consideration of the lower house of the national parliament a draft law which would put into place a moratorium on executions
- APRIL 30, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan is to suspend the death penalty, its president...
Tajikistan is to suspend the death penalty, its president said, making Uzbekistan the only country among the five ex-Soviet Central Asian states to carry out capital punishment
- APRIL 26, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
In an appeal to the Tajik government, Amnesty International...
In an appeal to the Tajik government, Amnesty International (AI) urged the government not to execute seven members of a group headed by the rebel commander, Rahmon Sanginov
- APRIL 12, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On February 11, 2005, the Tajik parliament amended the country’s criminal code and replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment.
On February 11, 2005, the Tajik parliament amended the country’s criminal code and replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment.
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in southern Tajikistan sentenced two men to...
A court in southern Tajikistan sentenced two men to death for murder, the Tajik national news agency Khovar web site reported
- DECEMBER 29, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death Farhod Sharopov, 34, for murder
- DECEMBER 28, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
An international human rights group asked the Russian...
An international human rights group asked the Russian prosecutor-general not to extradite three Tajik nationals arrested by Russian security forces earlier in 2003
- DECEMBER 17, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Dushanbe city court, Tajikistan, sentenced Sharafjon...
The Dushanbe city court, Tajikistan, sentenced Sharafjon Rahimov to death after finding him guilty of killing 19 year old Sirojiddin Fayzaliyevich Rahimov during a robbery
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Sherali Safarovich Norbekov, a former soldier, was...
Sherali Safarovich Norbekov, a former soldier, was sentenced to death by the military board of Tajikistan's Supreme Court after being convicted of several crimes including theft, robbery and the murder of five people in March 1993
- AUGUST 5, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Hakimjon Otaboyev, from northern Tajikistan, was sentenced...
Hakimjon Otaboyev, from northern Tajikistan, was sentenced to death by the Soghd regional criminal court
- JULY 11, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The president of the 55-nation Organisation for Security...
The president of the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called on Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmonov to impose a moratorium on the death penalty
- JULY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Asia Plus news agency reported that the Tajik Supreme...
Asia Plus news agency reported that the Tajik Supreme Court's Military Collegium sentenced a former presidential guard to death
- JUNE 30, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament ruled that women...
Tajikistan's lower house of parliament ruled that women found guilty of major crimes would no longer be executed, while their male counterparts were still subject to capital punishment
- JUNE 24, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik Television reported that President Emomali Rahmonov...
Tajik Television reported that President Emomali Rahmonov sent to the Assembly of Representatives for consideration a draft law on making amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan
- 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