DUSHANBE, January 28, 2015, Asia-Plus – A list of members of the Tajik opposition organization “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” detained in Russia and Tajikistan has been published on Facebook.
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports the Tajik authorities have confirmed the information about detention of members of “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” adding that several other people were detained on suspicion of being members of Group-24, which is banned in Tajikistan as an extremist organization.
Seven members of “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” have reportedly been detained in Russia and three others were detained in Tajikistan.
Members of “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” detained in Russia:
- Nouriddin Bafoyev, 44, Asht district, Sughd province, Tajikistan. He was detained in Moscow on November 25, 2014;
- Mehrubon Sattorov, 25, Khatlon province, Tajikistan. He was detained in Moscow on December 3, 2014;
- Abdurahim Vosiyev, 27, Qubodiyon district, Khatlon province. He was detained in Moscow on November 12, 2014;
- Karim Obidov, detained in Moscow (no more information);
- Sulaymon Jobirov, detained in Samara on December 19, 2014;
- Oyatullo Gilyaev, 26, Roudaki district, Tajikistan. He was detained in Novosibirsk
- Roziya Abudrahmonova, 54, Rumi district, Khatlon province. She was detained in Novosibirsk on December 19, 2014.
Members of “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” detained in Tajikistan:
- Nematullo Qurbonov, 25, Hamadoni district, Khatlon province. He was detained in Dushanbe on October 9, 2014 on arrival from Russia following threats to his relatives;
- Umedjon Solehov, 29, Vose district, Khatlon province. He was detained in Dushanbe on arrival from Russia following threats to his relatives;
- Sheroz Komilov, 22, Shahriston district, Sughd province. He was detained in Dushanbe on arrival from Russia following threats to his relatives.
The organization members note that several people have gone missing. A statement released by “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” says that the organization leader, Maqsoud Ibrohimov, was abducted in Russia on January 20 and illegally transferred to Tajikistan.
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service cited an official source at the Tajik Interior Ministry as saying that several members of the Tajik opposition organization Group-24 have also been detained.
The source reportedly added that they had not received any information from the Russian law enforcement authorities about detention of members of “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” in Russia. He just confirmed the detention of Umedjon Solehov. According to him, Umedjon Solehov is charged with being member of Group-24 and his case has already moved to a court in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district.
Meanwhile, another source reportedly confirmed the detention of Sheroz Komilov and Abdurahim Vosiyev’s relatives say that he is being held in a pretrial detention facility in Moscow for already months waiting for extradition to Tajikistan.
The organization “Youth for Revival of Tajikistan” and its leader Maqsoud Ibrohimov first made headlines on November 26, 2014, when unidentified assailants attacked Ibrohimov in Moscow. He reportedly sustained both a gunshot wound and a stab wound.
Maqsoud Ibrohimov is also the member of the Board of the Opposition Coalition “New Tajikistan.” Ibrohimov is reportedly on a blacklist of Tajik authorities for organization of demonstrations of Tajik migrant workers in various Russian cities demanding resignation of the Tajik leadership.
