DUSHANBE, September 2, 2011, Asia-Plus — Khurshed Atovullo (Niyozov), the editor-in-chief of the Dushanbe independent weekly
Farazh
, was summoned to the Sino-2 police station for identification of one of his alleged attackers.
Khurshed Atovullo told Asia-Plus that an investigator with the Sino-2 police station who is investigating the incident told him today morning that one of his alleged attackers has been detained.
We will recall that Khurshed Atovullo and two his friends were beaten in Dushanbe on August 31 while going from neighborhood # 102 to the Zarafshon-2 area. According to Atovullo, he with two his friends were going to a friend’s home in the Zarafshon-2 area, when a car blocked the road and forced him to stop. “Three young people armed with clubs got out of the car and began to beat us and four other men staying on the side of the road joined those three assailants,” Atovullo said, noting that the men did not give a reason for the attack.
The
Farazh
editor is sure that the attack was planned. According to him, they saw the license plate number of the assailants’ car. The journalist lodged a statement about the attack to Dushanbe’s Sino-2 police station.
