DUSHANBE, November 5, 2014, Asia-Plus — The 78-year-old Muzaffar Davlatov, the father of Alovuddin Davlatov (Ali Bedaki), a militant leader who was accused of killing dozens of Tajik soldiers in an ambush in autumn 2010, yesterday came out of prison under the amnesty, according to the Main Department for Execution of Criminal Penalties of the Ministry of Justice Main.
We will recall that military prosecutors in February 2011 accused Muzaffar Davlatov of not informing the authorities about his son”s terrorist activities and he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
According to official information, Alovuddin Davlatov was killed on January 4, 2011 during a military operation in the Rasht village of Runob. But a video of him allegedly taken by government forces and circulated among the public a few weeks ago suggests Alovuddin Davlatov had been detained by security forces and interrogated before he was killed.
Bedaki”s brother, Husnuddin Davlatov, was arrested in Rasht in mid-September 2010 and charged with buying weapons for his brother”s militant group. Husnuddin Davlatov, a former member of the Rasht city council and a former member of the Islamic Revival, was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2011.
Meanwhile, an official source at the Main Department for Execution of Criminal Penalties says more than 2,000 convicts have been released so far under a mass amnesty approved by the parliament last week.
The amnesty was proposed by the president to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Tajikistan”s post-Soviet constitution on November 6, 1994. As many as 10,000 imprisoned convicts and suspects in pretrial detention can be freed under the 2014 amnesty.
