DUSHANBE, November 15, 2014, Asia-Plus – The whereabouts of Tajik maternity nurse Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva, who was abducted last month in Yemen’s Marib province, has reportedly been determined.
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service quoted Manouchehr Abduyev, an employee of Russian medical company Zdravexport, for which Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva works in the city of Marib, central Yemen as saying that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yemen says that the whereabouts of Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva has been determined.
“Yemeni authorities assured that they will take efforts to secure the release of Tajik medical worker,” Manouchehr Abduyev was quoted as saying.
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that Yemen”s interior ministry said in a statement on November 14 “security services in Marib are doing all they can to free the Tajik citizen.”
Tribal sources reportedly said the kidnappers are pressing the authorities to release fellow tribesmen held on criminal charges.
Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva’s relatives say she disappeared in the morning of October 29 on the way to work. Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva, 36, was supposed to return to Tajikistan on November 13.
We will recall that Tajikistan”s Foreign Ministry has asked Yemeni authorities to secure the release of Gulrukhsor Rofiyeva. Official Dushanbe has also asked the Russian embassy in Yemen to help secure the Tajik national”s freedom.
