DUSHANBE, May 17, 2016, Asia-Plus – Mirzonazar Fozilov, who is the son-in-law of Mullo Abdurahim, teacher at the Tajik Islamic University and one of former field commanders of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO), has been detained by officers from the State Committee for National Security (SCNS).
Mullo Abdurahim (Abdurahim Karimov) has confirmed that his son-in-law was arrested by the SCNS officers in his home in Dushanbe.
“The SCNS officers arrested him on May 16. I do not know for what reason Mirzonazar was arrested and nobody from our family knows for what reason he was arrested. My family members just said that the SCNS officers came yesterday and took him with them,” Mullo Abdurahim told Asia-Plus Wednesday afternoon.
Mirzonazar Fozilov is graduate of the Islamic Institute of Tajikistan, Tajik National University and the International Islamic University in Islamabad (Pakistan). He is married to Mullo Abdurahim’s daughter and they have five children.
Mullo Abdurahim (Abdurahim Karimov), one of former field commanders of the Tajik United Opposition (UTO). At one time, he had held the position of head of the Customs Committee of Tajikistan as part of a power-sharing agreement that had given the opposition 30-percent representation in government. Later on, he had served as Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Philology at the Tajik Islamic University. Mullo Abdurahim currently serves as a teacher at the Tajik Islamic University.
