A call for Tajikistan to ‘immediately confirm the detention and whereabouts of and release’ Suhrob Zafar, leader of the opposition Group 24 movement outlawed by Dushanbe, was on May 3 made by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the International Partnership for Human Rights. Zafar’s whereabouts have been unknown since early March, when he disappeared in Turkey in a suspected case of transnational repression. Group 24 is headquartered in Istanbul. The human rights groups described Zafar as ‘forcibly disappeared”, despite his holding of official UN Refugee Agency (UNHC…
