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
- OCTOBER 25, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The judicial collegium for criminal proceedings of...
The judicial collegium for criminal proceedings of the Tajik Supreme Court, headed by a judge of the Supreme Court, Azamat Temurkhonov, has examined a criminal case brought against Khurshed Rasulov, Ilhomjon Muminov, Khurshe, Yusupov, Ikrom Gadoyev, Mirzo
- OCTOBER 14, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's Supreme Court passed death sentences on...
Tajikistan's Supreme Court passed death sentences on two former militants of the Tajik opposition, who are accused of murder, hostage-taking, and other crimes, said Makhadullo Watanov, deputy chairman of the court
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International strongly criticized Tajikistan...
Amnesty International strongly criticized Tajikistan for its death penalty practices
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was...
Tajik television reported that Bahrullo Mingboyev was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme court of Tajikistan sentenced to death...
The Supreme court of Tajikistan sentenced to death a man convicted of killing his two children
- AUGUST 24, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Umedzhon Davlatov, an Islamic extremist, was sentenced...
Umedzhon Davlatov, an Islamic extremist, was sentenced to death and another two - to various terms of imprisonment in Tajikistan, the press center of the Tajik Supreme court said
- AUGUST 13, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Interior Ministry's department for eradicating...
The Tajik Interior Ministry's department for eradicating drug trafficking destroyed 637 kilos of drugs, including 237 kilos of heroin
- JUNE 21, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced members of a criminal...
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced members of a criminal group to capital punishment and long prison terms for setting up an illegal armed group, terrorism, killings and assassination attempts against government officials
- JUNE 21, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their...
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their third child when her husband, Dovud, was sentenced to death in May 2001
- MAY 26, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajik Prosecutor-General Bobojon Bobokhonov said that...
Tajik Prosecutor-General Bobojon Bobokhonov said that the crime rate in 2001 was down on that of 2000
- APRIL 19, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's Supreme Court recently sentenced two residents...
Tajikistan's Supreme Court recently sentenced two residents of Bobojon Ghafurov District in [the northern] Soghd Region, Muhammadjon Asomiddinov and Murodjon Usmonov, to be shot
- APRIL 19, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court, Salimboy Fathilloyev,...
The chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court, Salimboy Fathilloyev, said that imposing a moratorium on the death penalty under the current conditions in Tajikistan was practically impossible
- APRIL 12, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Two Tajik soldiers were sentenced to death for armed robbery
Two Tajik soldiers were sentenced to death for armed robbery
- MARCH 27, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Military Collegium of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced...
The Military Collegium of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced to death Said Rizvonzoda, Abdulmajid Davlatov, Nazar Davlatov and Saidamir Karimov for the murder of the first deputy interior minister, Habibullo Sanginov, his two bodyguards and driver on 11 Ap
- MARCH 7, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Abdughani Sartibayev,...
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Abdughani Sartibayev, to death for the murder of Swiss tourist Didier Eric Mangerie in the summer of 2001
- JANUARY 20, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The chairman of the criminal collegium of the Supreme...
The chairman of the criminal collegium of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan, Fakhriddin Dodomatov, said: "I think the time for abolishing capital punishment has not yet come
- JANUARY 1, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's Criminal Code metes out the death penalty...
Tajikistan's Criminal Code metes out the death penalty for serious crimes such as an attempt to stage a coup d'etat, terrorism, taking hostages, premeditated murder aggravated by utmost cruelty and smuggling drugs in particularly large amounts
- JANUARY 1, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On december 20, 2001, according to a Voice and Vision...
On december 20, 2001, according to a Voice and Vision [of Iran] correspondent from Dushanbe, participants of the two-day conference entitled "The death penalty: pros and cons", opened in Dushanbe on December 20, said the number of those executed in Tajiki
- JANUARY 1, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court and its military collegium...
The Tajik Supreme Court and its military collegium passed death sentences on 33 people in 2000
- JANUARY 1, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is enforced for 41 offenses (27 peacetime...
The death penalty is enforced for 41 offenses (27 peacetime and 14 wartime) and in 1997 was extended to gangsterism
- JANUARY 1, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Under Tajik legislation possession of hard drugs in...
Under Tajik legislation possession of hard drugs in large quantities (from 15 g) with a view to selling carries the death penalty or jail terms from 20 to 25 years
- DECEMBER 20, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
December 20-21, 2001: a two-day international conference,...
December 20-21, 2001: a two-day international conference, entitled "The death penalty: pros and cons", opened in Dushanbe on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
According to a Voice and Vision [of Iran] correspondent...
According to a Voice and Vision [of Iran] correspondent from Dushanbe, participants of the two-day conference said the number of those executed in Tajikistan in 2000 was 65, and a total of 100 people were executed in 2001
- NOVEMBER 21, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Local residents and authorities in Central Asia actively...
Local residents and authorities in Central Asia actively resist attempts by Protestant preachers to convert traditionally Muslim population to Christianity, the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta claimed
- NOVEMBER 15, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Kyrgyz military tribunal confirmed the death penalty...
The Kyrgyz military tribunal confirmed the death penalty handed down earlier to two guerrilla members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- AUGUST 1, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Two students from the Islamic Institute of Dushanbe...
Two students from the Islamic Institute of Dushanbe were convicted and executed for the October 2000 bombing of a Dushanbe Protestant church that killed seven persons
- JULY 15, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Iranian radio reported that two men charged with attempting...
Iranian radio reported that two men charged with attempting to kill the mayor of the Tajik capital Dushanbe in February 2000 were sentenced to death
- JULY 13, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Mustafakul Boimurodov...
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Mustafakul Boimurodov and Sadritdin Fatkhutdinov, the organizers and perpetrators of a terrorist attack on a Korean religious mission to Dushanbe, to death
- MAY 25, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Farkhod Muqimov was sentenced to death by the Tajik...
Farkhod Muqimov was sentenced to death by the Tajik supreme court
- MAY 11, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The military board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced...
The military board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced to death