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
- MAY 2, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Two people who blew up the car of Ali Emomnazarov,...
Two people who blew up the car of Ali Emomnazarov, deputy chairman of the Tajik Customs Committee, in 1998, were sentenced to death
- MAY 2, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced Ikhtier Azimov, who was...
The Supreme Court sentenced Ikhtier Azimov, who was a member of an armed group, to death
- APRIL 24, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced two drug dealers, Islom...
The Supreme Court sentenced two drug dealers, Islom Kadirov and Kutbiddin Zaripov, to death
- MARCH 12, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan handed down the death...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan handed down the death sentence to a former officer of the interior ministry Capt
- FEBRUARY 9, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on...
The Tajik Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on Dzhakhongir Ruziyev, the former head of the Tajik precious stones committee and his [unidentified] nephew
- JANUARY 21, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty...
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been under wide discussion
- JANUARY 12, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death Maqsatullo Abdulhaqov, A
- JANUARY 9, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death the leader of a criminal armed group, (Murodali Bozorov), and two of his accomplices, (Abror Sulaymonov) and (Kiyemiddiyen Fayzullayev) for murder, banditry and also with taking several servicemen of the
- JANUARY 4, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Bohodur Huseynovich Sharipov, charged with a number...
Bohodur Huseynovich Sharipov, charged with a number of serious crimes committed in Tajikistan, who had gone into hiding in Uzbekistan, where he was arrested and handed over to Tajikistan, was sentenced to death by Soghd Region criminal court collegium
- JANUARY 1, 2001TajikistanDEATH 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, 2001TajikistanDEATH 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
- DECEMBER 21, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The criminal board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced...
The criminal board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced Abdurahim Naimov to death and his accomplice, Ubaydullo Rajabov, to 15 years imprisonment with confiscation of his property
- NOVEMBER 14, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Ergash Asadov and Qurbonali Rahimov were sentenced...
Ergash Asadov and Qurbonali Rahimov were sentenced to death by the Tajik Supreme Court
- NOVEMBER 9, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a criminal gang responsible for over...
Two members of a criminal gang responsible for over 50 violent crimes were sentenced to death by firing squad
- NOVEMBER 8, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Shomakhmad Khasanov (also known as Mowgli) and Validjon...
Shomakhmad Khasanov (also known as Mowgli) and Validjon Khalilov were sentenced to death for committing six murders
- NOVEMBER 8, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Dushanbe City Court sentenced Nasim Qurbonov,...
The Dushanbe City Court sentenced Nasim Qurbonov, a resident of Dushanbe, to death
- NOVEMBER 7, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Ilhom Rasulov, Fazliddin Zaripov and Iskandar Sherov...
Ilhom Rasulov, Fazliddin Zaripov and Iskandar Sherov were sentenced to death for their role in three murders and numberous robberies and other crimes committed , from September 1999 to April 2000 in hahr-i Nav, Tursunzoda and Hisor Districts
- OCTOBER 24, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Four armed supporters of rebel Colonel Makhmud Khudoiberdyev...
Four armed supporters of rebel Colonel Makhmud Khudoiberdyev were sentenced to death and fifty-nine others to various terms of imprisonment by the military department of the Tajik Supreme Court at a closed trial held in Dushanbe
- OCTOBER 23, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tajikistan sentenced two Tajik nationals...
A court in Tajikistan sentenced two Tajik nationals to be executed for drugs smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Rustam Ubaydullayev, a 48-year-old inhabitant of Dushanbe,...
Rustam Ubaydullayev, a 48-year-old inhabitant of Dushanbe, was sentenced to death in Tajikistan for mugging a UN military observer in February 1999
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Khudoydod Rasulov and Hasan Fayozov were found guilty...
Khudoydod Rasulov and Hasan Fayozov were found guilty of drug smuggling by the Leninobod regional court and sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Fayzullo Boymurotov, a resident of the Khatlon region,...
Fayzullo Boymurotov, a resident of the Khatlon region, was sentenced to death
- AUGUST 31, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A defendant took 21 court staff hostage in the building...
A defendant took 21 court staff hostage in the building of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan
- AUGUST 10, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Nazirmad Qurbonov, a contract serviceman in the town...
Nazirmad Qurbonov, a contract serviceman in the town of Chkalovsk (Leninobod Region), and of the Khujand airport guard, was sentenced to death by the Tajikistan Supreme Court
- JULY 18, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Mahmadrasul Sirojev was sentenced to death by the Supreme...
Mahmadrasul Sirojev was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Tajikistan
- MAY 25, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by...
A Tajik citizen, Akram Yusupov, 36, was arrested by Bashkortostan (Russia) Interior Ministry staff
- MARCH 30, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital...
The Supreme Court sentenced Hakimbek Homidov to capital punishment
- MARCH 18, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of...
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of drugs confiscated in the course of special operations in the furnaces of one of Dushanbe's industrial plants
- JANUARY 1, 2000TajikistanDEATH 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, 2000TajikistanDEATH 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