Tajik citizens have today staged two protests, one outside the OSCE annual conference at 9am in Warsaw before starting the conference and another one inside the hall where the OSCE HD Implementation Meeting was held.
In the demonstration that was held outside the conference hall, more than 100 activists from various opposition groups participated and criticized the human rights violations in Tajikistan.
They demanded release of all political prisoners, an end to all kinds of torture and oppression against activists and their family and sanctions against some high-ranking officials of Rahmon government who have direct links to tortures and violations of human rights.
The demonstrators called on the international community to break their silence in what is going in Tajikistan against peaceful lawyers and activists.
In the walk in inside the hall of the OSCE annual conference, the Tajik opposition members wore white shirts with the pictures of the political prisoners.
Mr. Steve Swerdlow, human rights researcher and attorney, Human Rights Watch, Europe and Central Asia division, about this walk in on his twitter account wrote: #HDIM2016 gets interesting as members of #Tajikistan’s banned opp’n #IRPT walk in 2 remind us what this is all abt.
It is worthy to note that the today protest was the biggest one in Europe which was held by tajik opposition since ban of the IRPT in September 2015.
