Bloody events of Badakhshan.
“Hunt” for civic activists and freethinkers.
Coinciding with a plan to quell popular unrest in Badakhshan, the authorities planned to arrest several civil society activists and Badakhshan’s powerful people who raised their voices in defense of justice.
On May 18, Badakhshan journalist and public figure Ulfatonum Mamadshoeva and her former husband, retired KNB general Kholbash Kholbashov, were arrested.
Ulfat Khanum Mamadshoeva and Kholbash Kholbashov said in their video message, which was recorded in a state of mental and physical tension, that they were involved in organizing demonstrations in Badakhshan.
In a fabricated case, the court sentenced Ulfatonim Mamadshoeva to 21 years in prison, and Kholbash Kholbashov to life imprisonment.
In connection with the bloody events of Badakhshan:
1. Faromuz Irgashev, human rights activist, leader of Commission 44, arrested and sentenced to 29 years in prison;
2. Muzaffar Muborakshoev, human rights defender, member of Commission 44, was arrested and sentenced to 18 years;
3. Manuchehr Khaliknazarov, chairman of the Pamir Bar Association, member of “Commission 44” arrested and sentenced to 15 years;
4. Khursand Mamadshoev, brother of “Commission 44” member Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva, was arrested and sentenced to 18 years;
5. Khushruz Dzhumaev, a human rights activist and blogger, was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Authorities also arrested Muhammadi Sultan (Muhammadsultan Mavlonazarov), a journalist and former security official who on his Facebook page condemned the bloody events in Badakhshan, and jailed him for 7 years.
As a result of terrible repressions and persecution by law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan after the events of November 2021 and May 2022, part of the free-thinking youth of Badakhshan left for Russia in search of asylum from mercenaries of the autocratic regime of Rakhmonov. They thought they were safe now. However, many of them were arrested by the Russian authorities at the request of the Tajik authorities and transferred to Tajikistan. Comer Mirzoev, a blogger and volunteer native of Khorog, was detained in Moscow on the evening of September 5, 2022, and then extradited to Tajikistan.
Brothers Oraz and Ramzi Vazirbekov, known for their criticism of the lawlessness of the Tajik authorities, disappeared in Russia in July, and then disappeared in Tajikistan. In the video, which was filmed under unknown conditions, they said they returned voluntarily, but their relatives say it was staged. Maksud Giyasov, a cultural activist and blogger from Badakhshan who lives in Moscow, was detained at his home on August 17.
Mamadbek Atobekov, a cultural activist in the Murgab district of Badakhshan, was detained on September 1 at his home in Moscow.
All these persons and dozens of active and free-thinking young people of Badakhshan were deprived of their freedom in fabricated cases.
The dictatorial regime arrested and imprisoned all those associated with the peaceful speeches of the people of Badakhshan, including all members of the “Commission 44” and more than 70 participants in the Rushan demonstration. All hearings were held behind closed doors due to falsification of cases and injustice of sentences.
With this action, the autocratic regime of Rakhmonov committed another crime and proved that this is not the power of the people, but the power of a group of criminals and usurpers. He does not realize that the axe hits the root of the rotten tree of his unstable power, because the root of oppression has no continuation.
Political movement “Group 24”
