During a closed-door trial Pirmuhammadzoda was found guilty of participation in an opposition political organisation banned as extremist. In October, Pirmuhammadzoda said that officers had tortured ...

DUSHANBE -- A prosecutor has asked a court in Dushanbe to convict and sentence Tajik blogger Abdusattor Pirmuhammadzoda to seven years in prison on extremism charges that he and his supporters reject.

CAIRO (AP) — A boat capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the U.N.’s migration agency said. The tragedy was the latest in a series of ...

The Bangladesh government has taken some major policy and regulatory initiatives for better migration governance.

State television in Tajikistan is worried about women’s clothes. Earlier this week, Khatlon, a channel based in the eponymous southern region, broadcast a report lambasting pop music performers for ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Tajikistan to fully disclose information on the whereabouts of two detained bloggers with a history of critical views and immediately release ...

International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to support the repatriation of the Rohingyas to Myanmar. The commitment came when IOM Bangladesh Chief of Mission ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has called upon the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to engage in further advocacy on the climate-migration nexus. He made this suggestion when the newly ...

At least 76 people, mostly Ethiopian migrants, died and many others remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen on Sunday, according to the United Nations’ migration agency. The boat, ...