DUSHANBE, February 22, 2016, Asia-Plus – A group of Tajik students numbering about 60 people gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Dushanbe today demanding extradition of “traitors of the Homeland.”
According to them, they have known that representatives of Tajik opposition are going to organize demonstrations in Istanbul and in a number of countries of the European Union tomorrow.
“We have come here to express disapproval of the fact that traitors of the homeland are given an opportunity to hold such actions,” said one of participants of the gathering.
The gathering participants say that it is not a demonstration, noting that a common cause – an appeal to the Government of turkey – has brought them together outside the Turkish Embassy. They say the gathering has been organized through Internet.
The participants of the action stated that they would bring up to 3,000 people to the Turkish Embassy if they do not get reply from the Embassy.
Today, this group of young people also gathered outside the building of the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan voicing the same demand.
We will recall that about 70 young people gathered outside the building of the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan on February 20 demanding extradition of the leader of the banned Islamic Revival Party (IRP), Muhiddin Kabiri, to Tajikistan.
It should be noted that it was not the first case of involvement of Tajik students in fight against the opposition.
Thus, such demonstrations were organized in front of the U.S. and German embassies on November 19 last year.
In October, a petition was started up at the Tajik National University demanding the extradition of critics of the government currently based abroad. Backers of the petition, which called for countries hosting IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri, the head of the Vatandor opposition movement, Dodojon Atovulloyev, and former Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullojonov to be handed over, say they have got signatures of support from 400 students across multiple universities.
According to organizers of the initiative, the appeals were submitted to legislators in the United States, Germany, and the European Union.
