DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Two international rights groups have condemned the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan over its jailing of independent lawyers defending the battered opposition in the Central Asian state.

Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee called for the release of at least four human rights lawyers imprisoned as part of a crackdown on dissenters, as well as two children of another lawyer.

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