DUSHANBE, June 24, 2014, Asia-Plus – The interior Ministry reports that nine persons were punished in a case related to an attack against the chairman of the Islamic Revival Party (IRP), Muhiddin Kabiri in Kulob.
In all, nine suspects were reported detained after Muhiddin Kabiri was pelted with tomatoes and eggs in the southern city of Kulob.
According to data of the Interior Ministry, more than 30 people participated in the attack against IRP leader.
Three men were sentenced to five days in jail, six other people have been fined 270 somoni each and 27 people have been warned, the Interior Ministry notes.
Besides, individual conversations were carried out with 116 residents of the neighborhood, where the attack had taken place.
We will recall that IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri was pelted with tomatoes and eggs on a visit to the city of Kulob on June 10. Some 15 men and women pelted Muhiddin Kabiri tomatoes and eggs, accusing the party members of wakening the civil war in the 1900s and seeking to destabilize the country today.
Founded in October 1990, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan was registered on December 4, 1991. It was banned by the Supreme Court in June 1993 and legalized in August 1999. Its official newspaper is
Najot
(Salvation). The IRP now has more than 41,000 members. The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is the only Islamic party in post-Soviet Central Asia that is officially registered and represented in a parliament. It won two seats in the 2010 parliamentary elections. Current chairman of the IRP is Muhiddin Kabiri.
According to some sources, women now constitute more than 51 percent of the Islamic Revival Party members.
