DUSHANBE, November 23, 2014, Asia-Plus – On Saturday November 22, President Emomali Rahmon met with a number of newly appointed officials of the country’s law enforcement authorities, including the Ministry of Interior and the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption.
The president’s official website reports that the chief of the Interior Ministry’s office in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), heads of a number of the Interior Ministry departments, the Interior Ministry’s offices in the regions, as well as heads of a number of departments of the anticorruption agency were replaced.
According to some sources, Abdulvahhob Iskandarov, formerly head of the Interior Ministry’s office in Kulob, was appointed to head the Interior Ministry’s office in Gorno Badakhshan, replacing Fayzullo Nozimov.
Fayzullo Nozimov, who had been GBAO police chief since 2012, went on leave last May and he had not appeared in the region since that.
We will recall that residents of Gorno Badakhshan in March this year complained of Fayzullo Nozimov’s using force against seven residents of the Rushan district. One of them was hospitalized with a number of serious injuries.
After the deadly clashes that occurred in Khorog, the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan on May 21, protesters demanded the resignation of local police chief Fayzullo Nozimov.
Nozimov went on leave and according to some sources he had not appeared in the region since that.
Clashes in Khorog on May 21 left at least three people, including a police officer, dead and at least seven people, including three police officers, injured. The fatalities occurred during a police offensive against suspected criminals and ensuing clashes between security forces and local residents upset with the police action.
Deputy Interior Minister, Abdullo Navjuvanov had been acting chief of the Interior Ministry’s office in the GBAO since July 21.
