DUSHANBE, August 4, 2010, Asia-Plus — Sadriddin Akramov, the founder of the Institute of Innovative Technology and Communication (IITC), has filed a lawsuit against Education Minister Abdujabbor Rahmonov.
Akramov told Asia-Plus he filed the suit to the court in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district on July 30 this year. He accused the education minister of defamation and insulting.
The lawsuit, in particular, says that Education Minister Abdujabbor Rahmonov sent a letter to President Emomali Rahmon on June 3 2009, asking to revoke the license of IITC.
According to Akramov, the institute administration has repeatedly asked for an opportunity to familiarize itself with the letter’s content. “However, all our attempts have been vain though the minister’s letter concerns vital interests of the institute,” he said, adding that they knew from reliable sources in the government that in his letter, the minister noted that the IITC allegedly employed mainly persons conducting antigovernment propagation among its professors.
The IITC founder noted that the institute spent some 100,000 somoni for advocatory services in 2009-2010 in order to defend itself. “We also demand that the education minister reimburse our forced expenses,” he said.
Akramov also filed similar lawsuit against Khurshed Ziyoev, the head of the State Service for Education Supervision, accusing him of office abuse, negligence, service forgery, and arbitrary rule.
We will recall that the Ministry of Education (MoE) in July 2009 announced a temporary suspension of admission of entrants to the IITC, the country’s only private university, for 2009-2010 academic year and asked all applicants that submitted their documents to this university to take them and submit to other universities until July 31. However, the IITC decided not to halt its operations. The MoE insisted it needs at least three months to check the IITC”s documents and activities and demanded that the university remain closed until that process is complete.
Following an application by the MoE, Dushanbe’s Economic Court on January 21, 2010 ruled that the ITC be closed because it allegedly does not comply with the country’s law on education. On March 29, 2010, Dushanbe’s Economic Court began to consider an appeal by the IITC against the ruling handed down by judge of this court B. Rahimov on January 21 2010 originally sought by the MoE.
Founded in 2003 as International University of Tajikistan, it was renamed University of Humanities in 2006 and eventually Tajik Institute of Innovation Technology and Communication in 2008. The university has seven faculties: Information Systems and Technologies; World Economy; Management; International Relations; Foreign Languages; International Law; and Computer Science.
