DUSHANBE, May 22, 2015, Asia-Plus — An inspector with the Special Department at the Penitentiary System of the Ministry of Justice of Tajikistan, Warrant Officer Jourabek Doustov, disappeared two weeks ago, an official source at the police department in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district told Asia-Plus in an interview on May 22.
“Criminal proceedings have been instituted and search for Doustov is under way, the source said.
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that Jourabek Doustov disappeared on May 8 after telling his wife he would go to a wedding of his colleague.
Doustov’s wife, Faroghat Kholova, told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service that she do not believe that Doustov could go to Syria.
Doustov’s relatives and friends also dismissed suggestions that Doustov, who has 2 years of experience of work with penitentiary institutions, could leave for Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants there as “baseless.”
