DUSHANBE, April 1, 2011, Asia-Plus — Among eleven persons standing trial for escaping from the Central Committee for National Security (SCNS)’s pretrial detention facility in Dushanbe are three masterminds of this jailbreak, including one Russian national.
The source at the Supreme Court says nine Tajik nationals and two Russians are standing the trial. “Among them are three masterminds of the jailbreak – Ibrohim Nasreddinov, also known as Qori Ibrohim, Hikmatullo Azizov, and Russian citizen Magomed Akhmedov,” the source said.
Among the culprits are also Abdulrasoul Mirzoyev, the brother of jailed former presidential-guard commander Ghaffor Mirzoyev who also headed the Tajik counternarcotics agency, Zaydullo Azizov, Bahromjon Orifov, Russian national Ali Aliyev, etc.
Besides, several persons who are charged with sheltering the jailbreak fugitives are also in the dock. Among them is resident of Vahdat district Davlat Nozirov who reportedly harbored Qori Ibrohim.
As it had been reported earlier, the trial of eleven fugitives from an August 2010 mass jailbreak and their accomplices began in the Supreme Court on March 30. The Supreme Court’s military board is considering criminal proceedings instituted against them. The culprits are charged with jailbreak, murder, illegal possession of weapons, banditry and armed resistance.
We will recall that 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the SCNS’s detention facility in Dushanbe in the early hours of morning of August 23 2010, killing five prison guards. Dressing in camouflage, the escapees fled toward eastern Tajikistan. The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19, 2010 of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government. The escaped prisoners include six Russian citizens, four Afghans, and two Uzbeks. Most were accused of participating in the 2009 armed rebellion in Tavildara.
Three fugitives have been killed when resisting arrest and fourteen more have been recaptured, mostly in the Dushanbe suburbs, eastern Tajikistan and in Afghanistan. The remaining eight are still at large.
As it had been reported earlier, five fugitives, including three Afghan nationals, were arrested in northern Afghanistan on December 19, 2010. Two of them – Hikmatullo Azizov, nicknamed “Kuri Malysh (a mixed expression of Tajik and Russia meaning ‘blind kid’) and Bahromjon Orifov – were extradited from Afghanistan on December 25, 2010. As far as three Afghan nationals who were also escapees from the jailbreak are concerned, Afghanistan wanted to put them on trial.
