Ex-member of an illegal armed group of Abdullo Rahimov, widely known as Mullo Abdullo, has got a lengthy jail term.
According to the press center of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, the Supreme Court has sentenced the 43-year-old resident of the Nourobod district (Rasht Valley), Nematullo Nazirov, to fifteen years in prison. Nazirov will serve his jail term in a high-security penal colony.
Nazirov reportedly voluntarily joined Mullo Abdullo’s group in early 1994 and was an active member of the group until May 1998.
On June 23, 1996, Nazirov participated in an attack on a passenger bus in the Nourobod district. Six passengers, including one police officer, were killed and six others were wounded in that attack, the press center of the Prosecutor-General’s Office said.
Recall, Mullo Abdullo himself was killed on April 15, 2011 along with 14 of his confederates in the Rasht district, some 50 kilometers west of Gharm, the administrative center of Rasht district. Tajik authorities said Mullo Abdullo and his followers were behind the 2011 attack on Tajik Army forces in Kamarob Gorge in the eastern Rasht district in which at least 26 soldiers died.
Mullo Abdullo was one of United Tajik Opposition (UTO) field commanders during the country’s 1992-1997 civil war. He never accepted the peace treaty and reportedly fled to Afghanistan. In 2009, a few reports surfaced that he had returned to Tajikistan and was hiding in the mountains around the Rasht district.
