(Almaty, March 20, 2019) – The Tajik government should immediately and unconditionally release a seriously ill political activist who says he has been tortured, nine human rights groups said today. The prisoner, Mahmadali Hayit, is deputy head of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), the country’s largest opposition...

Today came to light facts of torture and coercion against political prisoner Mahmadali Hayitov. Savriniso Juraeva, Hayitov’s spouse, recorded a video where she called upon the community and international human rights organizations. During her last appointment with Mahmadali Hayitov on March 9, 2019, she found out about the facts...