DUSHANBE, March 26, Asia-Plus — A district court in Moscow has sentenced three officers from the Vykhino police station to two years in jail each for beating Tajik students at a university hostel in the Russian capital.
According to Muhammad Egamzod, press secretary of the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, the Kuzminki district court on March 23 ruled that the police officers be given two years in jail each.
We will recall that the incident took place at the hostel of Russia’s State University of Management in Moscow in June last year. As it had been reported earlier, on June 7, a man knocked on the door of a room at the student dormitory. The university student — a citizen of Tajikistan — opened the door. The visitor showed an official identification card and introduced himself as a policeman. After him, about six people barged into the room and began beating six Tajik university students who were in the room using a tire wrench, belts, and their feet. They also took the students’ money and mobile phones. At least one of the students was reported hospitalized.
