DUSHANBE, June 8, Asia-Plus — Five Tajik students have been severely beaten but a group of Moscow policemen, according to information from the Tajik Embassy in Moscow.
Muhammad Egamzod, press secretary of the Tajik Embassy in
Moscow
, has told Asia-Plus that a group of
Moscow
policemen numbering five-six people yesterday burst into a room in the hostel of
Russia
’s
Management
University
, where students from
Tajikistan
live. They severely beat the Tajik students that were in the room and took away their money and cellular phones. Five students were hospitalized with various wounds, according to Egamzod.
He says the
Moscow
prosecutor’s office has instituted criminal proceedings to investigate the matter. Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev has taken the investigation under his own control, Egamzod said.
