Tajikistan Joint Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review: The Death Penalty
Date: April 10, 2026
Country: Tajikistan
Partners: Capital Punishment Justice Project, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: Tajikistan
Partners: Capital Punishment Justice Project, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty
Mechanism: UN Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
This report addresses Tajikistan's compliance with its international human rights obligations with respect to the death penalty. In 2004, the President of Tajikistan announced the introduction of a moratorium on the
application of the death penalty,
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and in 2005 he signed a moratorium bill into law.2 Since that
time courts have not sentenced people to death. Despite supporting UPR recommendations in 2021 to finalize the abolition of the death penalty
and to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, Tajikistan has taken no steps toward doing so.
