DUSHANBE, August 16, 2013, Asia-Plus – Unidentified persons have reportedly beaten Saodatsho Adolatshoyev, the deputy head of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) organization for the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
According to the IRP website, Ms. Zarafo Rahmoni, advisor to the IRP leader, says the incident took place in the Rushan district on August 15, at 20:39 pm.
Ms. Rahmoni says that a minivan without number plate blocked their road. Twelve young men reportedly got out of the minivan and beat the deputy head of IRP organization for GBAO, Saodatsho Adolatshoyev, who was accompanying the IRP delegation enroute to Khorog, the capital of Gorno Badakhshan.
She also noted that police officers interrogated their driver in the Darvoz district.
The IRP website notes that the party delegation numbering five persons is visiting Gorno Badakhshan to study the situation around the IRP organization in the region.
We will recall that Asror Bulbulov, the head of the IRP organization for Khorog, was shown on state television on August 5. Bulbulov noted that some residents of the region had allegedly been put on the list of members of IRP’s organization for GBAO without their knowledge. According to him, information about the number of members of the IRP in the region has never corresponded to the facts. “I just know that only 37 persons in our region are members of the Islamic Revival Party, but not 2,700 as the party leadership states,” the head of the IRP organization for Khorog said.
Meanwhile, representatives from IRP’s headquarters in Dushanbe say Bulbulov has made that statement under pressure from the country’s security service.
Therefore, the IRP has decided to send it s delegation to Khorog to study the situation on the spot.
Founded in October 1990, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan was registered on December 4, 1991. It was banned by the Supreme Court in June 1993 and legalized in August 1999. Its official newspaper is
Najot
(Salvation). According to some sources, IRP now has some 50,000 members. It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary elections. The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party registered in CIS Central Asia.
