DUSHANBE, January 17, 2012, Asia-Plus — The trial of two persons charged with beating a traffic police officer to death opened on January 17 but was immediately adjourned until January 19.
Ozodbek Odinayev and Saidmukhtor Mirjonov were brought to trial for their alleged role in the death of the traffic police officer Ravshan Sharipov.
Lawyer Homid Mamourov, who is representing the injured party in the court, told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon that the trial was postponed because the defendants were not transported from the pretrial detention facility to the court in Dushanbe’s Firdavsi district.
Ozodbek Odinayev and Saidmukhtor Mirjonov are charged with beating traffic police officer Ravshan Sharipov to death. They face charges of hooliganism (Article 237 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code), attempted bribery (Article 32 (3), using violence against a representative of authorities (Article 328 (2) and negligent killing (Article 108 (1).
We will recall that traffic police officer, Ravshan Sharipov, 25, died at the National Medical Center in Dushanbe on May 5, 2011 several days after he was beaten by two young men while being on duty.
Ravshan Sharipov was hospitalized on April 28 after being beaten by two young men. The incident took place at the crossroads of the Nemat Qaraboyev and Shestopalov streets in Dushanbe. Traffic police officers Tolibjon Qodirov and Ravshan Sharipov reportedly stopped Mercedes (number plate 9889 RT 01) that drove through red light. The driver Saidmukhtor Mirojev, 30, and his passenger Ozodbek Odinayev, 26, severely beat Sharipov, who sustained serious wounds and was taken to the hospital.
