DUSHANBE: Tajikistan has introduced 10-year prison sentence for those using electricity illegally as a decades-long energy crisis caused by water shortages worsens in the poor Central Asian country.

In the first instance of criminalizing illegal electricity consumption in Central Asia, Tajikistan is introducing prison sentences up to 10 years.

causes. The Tajikistan government, earlier in the year, chose to cover up an even bloodier prison massacre. Although information about the events is scarce, reports indicate that in mid-April the ...

Tajikistan’s Supreme Court found a number of prominent figures, human rights lawyers, and politicians guilty of high treason, with sentences of between 18 and 27 years in prison. A human rights ...