2020 in Tajikistan
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Events in the year 2020 in Tajikistan.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 28 – Prosecutor General Yusuf Rakhmon announced the arrest of 113 alleged members of the Muslim Brotherhood.[1]
February
March
- March 1 – Parliamentary elections were held in the country, with a total of 241 candidates contesting 22 party-list seats and 41 constituency seats. The result was a landside victory for the ruling People's Democratic Party, which won 47 of the 63 seats. The only opposition party, the Social Democratic Party, received just 0.3% of the vote while the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan was unable to participate, having been banned by the authorities over terrorism allegations in 2015.[3][4][5]
April
- April 13 – The country reported its first confirmed cases of COVID-19. Five people have tested positive for the virus in the capital Dushanbe, and 10 others in the northern Sughd Region, according to the state-run news agency Khovar.[6]
See also
- List of years in Tajikistan
- 2020 in Tajikistan
- 2020 in Tajikistani sport
References
- Reuters Staff (2020-01-28). "Tajikistan arrests 113 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members". Reuters. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- "Publication of 13,000 copies of WHO guidelines".
- Elections To Tajikistan's Lower House To Take Place March 1, Upper House March 27 - Decree Urdu Point, 4 December 2019
- "Tajikistan's long-serving ruler dispenses with all political opposition". The Economist. 7 March 2020.
- Pitiot, Christophe (2020-03-01). "Ruling party in Tajikistan expected to sweep parliamentary election". euronews. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
- "Tajikistan declares first coronavirus cases". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
External links
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