DUSHANBE, August 11, 2014, Asia-Plus – The Islamic Revival Party (IRP) intends to file lawsuit against the Khujand mayor’s office over demolition of its office in Khujand, the capital of Sughd province.
“Local authorities have promised to reimburse the cost of the building and allot a plot of land for construction of a new building for our organization,” said Ilhomjon Yoqubov, the head of the IRP organization for Sughd. “On July 2, we officially applied to the Khujand mayor’s office asking them to redeem their promise. Today is August 11 but we have yet received response to our letter.”
“If they do not respond to our letter today, we will file lawsuit against the Khujand mayor’s office tomorrow,” Yoqubov said.
We will recall that the Sughd authorities demolished the IRP’s office in Khujand on June 17 and it reportedly promised to reimburse the building cost and allot a plot of land for construction of new building for the IRP organization in Sughd.
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). The IRP now has more than 41,000 members. The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party in post-Soviet Central Asia that is officially registered and represented in a parliament. It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Current chairman of the IRP is Muhiddin Kabiri.
According to some sources, women now constitute more than 51 percent of the Islamic Revival Party members.
