DUSHANBE, July 9, 2009, Asia-Plus — Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General’s Office is seeking transfer of Kyrgyz national Muhammadi Salimzoda, who is serving his sentences for espionage in Tajikistan, to Kyrgyzstan, CA News reported referring to Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General’s Office.
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are member stats of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners.
In Accordance with Article 9 of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners, Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General’s Office on June 21 sent a package of documents necessary for considering the issue of transfer of convict Muhammadi Salimzoda to the Kyrgyz side, according to CA News.
In the meantime, officials with Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office say that they have not yet received that request.
We will recall that retired colonel of the Kyrgyz armed forces Muhammadi Salimzoda, who is an ethnic Tajik, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison for allegedly spying for Kyrgyzstan and coup d’etat attempt.
The Military Board of the Supreme Court ruled on May 6 that Colonel Muhammadi Salimzoda be given a jail term of 29 years and the he should serve in a high-security penal colony. The sentence followed his conviction on charges of espionage and coup d’etat attempt.
Tajik security officers arrested Muhammadi Salimzoda in Tajikistan by security officers in August last year, when he arrived in Tajikistan from Bishkek to attend his daughter’s wedding. However the first information about his arrest appeared only in January this year, when his relatives knew that he is held in pretrial detention facility of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB).
Salimzoda and his family left for Kyrgyzstan in 1993.
