DUSHANBE, September 27, 2010, Asia-Plus — Member of a group of high-profile inmates who broke out of detention facility in Dushanbe last month was killed on September 26 while offering armed resistance to security forces.
According to the State Committee for National Security (SCNC), Rahmiddin Azizov, one of 25 inmates who broke out of the SCNS-run pretrial detention facility in Dushanbe on August 23, was detected yesterday during a search operation conducted with officers from SCNS in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) in the area near the village of Chanoro in Fayzobod district, some 50 kilometers of Dushanbe.
Rahmiddin Azizov was killed while offering armed resistance. Machine-gun Kalashnikov and a large amount of money in the national currency were found on the spot.
The 38-year-old Rahmiddin Azizov reportedly wounded two officers from the SCNS’s branch in Fayzobod district on September 18.
Rahmiddin Azizov and his brother ZaydulloI Azizov were detained during a special operation on disarming illegal armed groups in Tavildara district in July 2009. They are brothers of Nemat Azizov, commander of illegal armed group, who was killed by government forces in Tavildara in July 2009. Tajik authorities conducted what they said was an anti-drug operation in the area. Ex-Minister of Emergencies also former opposition top commander Mirzo Ziyoyev was also killed in that operation.
Tajik law enforcement authorities have recaptured seven escaped prisoners to this day and the search operation for the remaining 17 escapees is going.
As it had been reported earlier, 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the GKNB-run pretrial detention facility in the early hours of morning of August 23, killing five prison guards. Dressing in camouflage, the escapees reportedly fled toward eastern Tajikistan. The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19 of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government. The prisoners reportedly took advantage of the negligence of the jail warden.
