By empty (3/18/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The leaders of Tajikistan\'s opposition Taraqqiyot Party announced at a news conference on 18 March that they are ending the hunger strike they began on 12 March. The four party members, two deputy chairman among them, initiated the hunger strike to protest the Justice Ministry\'s four-month-long delay in registering the party. The erstwhile hunger strikers told journalists in Dushanbe on 18 March that they \"will continue to defend civil society\'s right to political pluralism and democratic values within a constitutional framework.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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