Tajikistan and China have exchanged Notes on ratification of an Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons that was signed in Dushanbe on September 13, 2014.
The ceremony of Exchange of Notes took place in Beijing on June 19, 2017, according to the Tajik MFA information department.
The Agreement will take effect on July 19, 2017.
Recall, Chinese authorities executed a Tajik national convicted of drug trafficking in January 2016. Hasan Yusufov, 51, was executed early in the morning on January 28, 2016.
Tajik Embassy representatives were allowed to meet with Yusufov before his execution.
Yusufov was arrested in Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, in 2011 and was charged with drug trafficking. He was later found guilty and sentenced to death.
All attempts by the Tajik Embassy to overturn the death sentence were fruitless.
Tajik officials noted in January 2016 that 16 Tajik citizens are in China’s prison system, four of whom are on death row while five others are serving life terms.
