📌 Key documented facts about Tajikistan
«In 2017, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and General Prosecutor's
Office registered 367 LGBTQ individuals (319 men and 48 women)
as part of operations 'Purge' and 'Morality', officially justified
as HIV prevention. Those on the list were subjected to outing,
extortion, detention and beatings.»
«In May 2024, eight LGBT activists were arbitrarily detained,
their phones copied, and contacts summoned for 'meetings'.
Threats were made under Article 125 of the Criminal Code
(HIV infection, up to 2 years).»
«The chief psychiatrist of Tajikistan publicly stated:
'we treat them with a guarantee' — state-sanctioned
medicalisation of homosexuality.»
Sources: IPHR «Rights For All? LGBTIQ Persons in Tajikistan» (February 2024) ·
HRW World Report 2025 Tajikistan · Current Time RU (chief psychiatrist TJ) ·
RFE/RL (registry of 367, October 2017)
Open IPHR 2024 PDF → ⚠️ This page is a library of public documents, not immigration advice. What to use in your case is decided by an IAA/SRA/BSB-regulated lawyer.
📄 No UK CPIN — what this means
No dedicated UK CPIN for Tajikistan
The UK Home Office publishes Country Policy and Information Notes (CPIN) for countries with higher volumes of asylum claims. For Tajikistan, no separate CPIN on SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) exists.
This means decision-makers turn to international COI sources: reports from IPHR, HRW, ILGA-Europe, Outright International, ECOM and others — all listed below and freely available.
📚 Document catalogue
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) · February 2024 · PDF, 60+ pages
Systematic analysis: law, police, healthcare, media, interviews with survivors. Covers the 2017 MIA registry, Article 125 of the Criminal Code, psychiatric «treatment», double lives. The main cited report for 2024 on Tajikistan. Available in English and Russian.
ILGA-Europe · February 2025 · PDF
Annual Review 2025 (covering 2024): case studies of May 2024 detentions — 8 activists, phone copying, threats under Article 125. Updates on bias-motivated violence. Most recent ILGA data on Tajikistan.
Human Rights Watch · 2025 · Web report
Documents May 2024 detentions, phone copying and summoning of contacts to «meetings», threats under Article 125. Separate LGBT section within the broader human rights chapter on Tajikistan.
Outright International · Continuously updated · Web report
Country profile: current status of LGBT people in Tajikistan, links to in-country organisations, 2024 LBQ needs assessment — 58% do not feel safe, 72% need psychological support. One of the key cited sources.
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty · October 2017 · Web article
Primary report on the October 2017 registry. Quotes Minister of Internal Affairs Ramazon Rahimzoda: 319 men and 48 women. References the official Prosecutor General's journal. Independent corroboration of the data.
The Diplomat · March 2024 · Long-form report
Long-form reportage with interviews of survivors, details of 2022–2023 raids, outing practices. Describes blackmail and pressure methods used through the police database.
ECOM (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) · 2022 · PDF
Monitoring report for 2022: 22 documented LGBT rights violations in Tajikistan. Specific statistics on detentions, threats and pressure from authorities.
📖 Context
The 2017 MIA registry: 367 people
In October 2017, it became known that Tajikistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and General Prosecutor's Office had created an official registry of LGBT+ citizens. According to RFE/RL and NBC News, the registry contained 319 men and 48 women — 367 people in total. The official justification was «medical monitoring and HIV prevention».
The real consequences for people on the registry: forced outing, detentions, beatings, blackmail. The existence of the registry is documented by multiple independent sources.
Article 125 as a pressure tool
Homosexuality in Tajikistan has not been formally criminalised since 1998. However, authorities use other tools: Article 347 of the Criminal Code «hooliganism» and Article 125 «HIV infection» (up to 2 years imprisonment) as mechanisms to target LGBT people.
Threats of Article 125 are particularly common: forced HIV tests were used as intimidation in the 2022–2024 raids.
⚠️ Important: This catalogue contains public documents for general information. It is not immigration advice. What applies to your case is decided by an IAA/SRA/BSB-regulated lawyer.
