DUSHANBE, March 6, 2014 Asia-Plus — Two unknown persons – a man and a woman – have reportedly attempted to disrupt a meeting of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) leader Muhiddin Kabiri with the IRP activists in the Rumi district, Khatlon province.
“Two unknown persons – a man and a woman — yesterday entered the office of the IRP organization in the Rumi district, where a meeting of the IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri with activists of the IRP organization for Khatlon province was being held. They said that they are members of the party and they came to the meeting with Kabiri. When representatives of the IRP organization for the Rumi district did not recognize them, the woman tried to burst into the office with a cry,” the IRP activist Abduqahhor Davlat told Asia-Plus in an interview Thursday morning.
“When they realized that they failed to draw attention of the people around them, they made away,” Davlat added.
We will recall that Hikmatullo Sayfullozoda, editor-in-chief of IRP’s newspaper
Najot
(Salvation), told Asia-Plus on February 28 two women attempted to disrupt a meeting of activists of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) in the Kulob region that took place in IRP’s office in Kulob on February 27. According to him, two women accompanied by one man raised noise outside IRP’s office in Kulob in order to disrupt the meeting. The man who accompanied the women was identified as former police officer and former member of the Popular Front of Tajikistan (the main pro-government army in the civil
war in Tajikistan) Ibrohim Ismoilov, Sayfullozoda said.
A similar incident was held in Dushanbe in early December, when some two dozen female protesters noisily disrupted a press conference of the Social-Democratic Party (SDP) to criticize its leader Rahmatillo Zoyirov and heap praise on President Emomali Rahmon. SDP representatives that time accused the authorities of using “rent-a-crowd” women to put pressure on government opponents
