DUSHANBE, May 6, 2011, Asia-Plus — The news center of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan yesterday released report on sentences passed on seven men recaptured after a high-profile jailbreak in Dushanbe last August, namely Ibrohim Nasriddinov, known as Qori Ibrohim, Abdurasoul Mirzoyev, Zaydullo Azizov, Magomed Akhmedov, Tolibsho Naimov, Sayismon Khoujayev and Ali Aliyev.
The sentences were handed down by the Supreme Court”s military board on May 3 and officially confirmed on May 4. Justice Abdujabbor Sattorov, the head of the Supreme Court’s military board, presided over the trial.
The court jailed Ibrohim Nasriddinov, Zaydullo Azizov, Tolibsho Naimov and Sayismon Khoujayev for life in connection with murders, banditry, illegal possession of weapons, a mass jailbreak that left several prison guards dead, car hijacking and resisting arrest.
Three other men – Abdurasoul Mirzoyev, the brother of imprisoned former chief of the presidential guard, Ghaffor Mirzoyev, Magomed Akhmedov and Ali Aliyev — were sentenced to 30 years in prison for their part in the escape from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)”s pretrial detention facility in Dushanbe.
The court also found four other men – Sadriddin Azizov, Gulmurod Ghayurov, Davlat Nozirov and Shafi Aliyev – guilty of helping the escapees reach safe locations or not reporting their whereabouts.
Shafi Aliyev got a jail term of eight years for harboring the fugitives and not reporting their whereabouts and Sadriddin Azizov was sentenced to five years in prisons for the same crimes. Gulmurod Ghayurov was sentenced to two years in prison and Davlat Nozirov was put on one-year probation.
We will recall that the trial of the recaptured jailbreak fugitives, charged with murder, banditry, illegal weapon possession, and other serious crimes, started on April 1. The trial was held behind closed doors.
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 four 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 fourteen Tajik nationals, six Russian citizens, four Afghans, and two Uzbeks. Most were accused of participating in the 2009 armed rebellion in Tavildara.
Eight months after the breakout, four fugitives were killed by security forces and twelve more have been recaptured, and the remaining nine are still at large.
