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Amnesty: General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan

Implementations

Amnesty – 1997

The CNR began its work in September and formed a working group on the implementation of the amnesty law with equal numbers of UTO and government representatives. Over 700 UTO cases were submitted for review in 1997. The government agreed to release 161 detainees. Roughly half (78) were set free on 20 October with help from UNMOT.¹

«Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1997/859), November 5, 1997.

Amnesty – 1998

In January of 1998, Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General dropped all charges against UTO leaders, but did not issue a blanket amnesty for all UTO fighters.² It was reported at this time that the CNR reviewed 1,370 cases and referred them to the government by May of 1998. By the end of 1998, only 399 were given amnesty.³

«Chronology,» in Politics of Compromise: the Tajikistan Peace Process, eds. K. Abdullaev and C. Barnes (London: Conciliation Resources, 2001), Accord 10: 82-87.
«Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Tajikistan,» United Nations (S/1998/374), May 6, 1998.

Amnesty – 1999

By the end of 1999, the government had granted amnesty to approximately 5,000 UTO fighters, although a small number of UTO fighters remained in prison in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast.⁴

«Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2000- Tajikistan,» U.S. State Department, 2001.