Itar-Tass

Tajikistan to announce moratorium on capital punishment

Tajikistan will impose a moratorium on capital punishment in the nearest future, president Emomali Rakhmonov declared in his speech to the national parliament on Friday.

The president said in his annual message to parliament, "I have issued an instruction to set up a working group that will see to it that an act of legislation be promulgated for this purpose."

The criminal code of Tajikistan contains 5 articles envisaging death penalty for murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide.