Ahmed Jaffer Muhammad, a Bahraini critic of the government who fled to Serbia after government authorities tortured and ill-treated him, was extradited in January 2022 after Bahraini authorities issued a Red Notice through Interpol. Bahraini courts had sentenced him to life in prison following unfair, in absentia trials. In permitting the extradition, Serbia violated the principle of nonrefoulement, as Muhammed had previously been tortured and ill-treated while detained in Bahrain and risked
Tajik authorities have cut the electricity to the homes of several self-exiled opposition activists’ parents, their families said, amid renewed government pressure on its political opponents.
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When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon visited Germany last week, he was met by protests and a volley of eggs courtesy of the opposition-in-exile. Back in Tajikistan, the state machine has responded the only way it knows how by punishing the activists’ relatives.