KHUJAND, February 4, 2009, Asia-Plus — A 35-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan Abdumalik Jamoliddinov, who is native of Sughd’s Bobojonghafurov district and activist of the outlawed religious extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir group, has been sentenced by Sughd regional court to 11 years imprisonment.
According to reliable source in the Sughd law enforcement agencies, the Sughd regional court on February 2 ruled that Abdumalik Jamoliddinov be given a jail term of 11 years and he should serve it in a high-security penal colony. The sentence followed hic conviction on charges of inciting national racial, regional or religious enmity and calls for the forcible overthrow of or change to Tajikistan’s constitutional order.
The source noted that Jamoliddinov was convicted on the same charges in 2001 already. On March 19, 2001, a court in Sughd’s Bobojonghafurov district sentenced him to three years in jail.
“On March 22, 2003, he was amnestied, however, he continued illegal actions, disseminating Hizb ut-Tahrir’s ideas,” said the source, “”Later, he fled Tajikistan for Russia, where he was detained by Russian law enforcement authorities in the city of Domodedovo on December 27, 2007 and on December 31 of the same year he was transferred to Tajikistan.”
