The mother of the blogger has been transferred to Nurek

Shokhida Mamadjonova has been transferred from the pre-trial detention center to a women’s colony in Nurek. Her son, Sherzod Makhmadjonov, a well-known blogger under the nickname “Abdurakhmon-09,” reported this to the press.

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On April 7, the court of the Ismoili Somoni district of Dushanbe sentenced Shokhida Mamadjonova to 6 years in a colony. She was found guilty of collaborating with the “Group 24” and the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.

Earlier, Sherzod Makhmadjonov, a Tajik blogger living in Germany and known by the nickname “Abdurakhmon-09,” told Azda TV that on February 2, police officers in Vahdat summoned his mother, Shokhida Mamadjonova, to the station to retrieve her mobile phone, which was in the possession of the officers. When she arrived at the organized crime department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Vahdat on February 3, she was detained.

On February 8, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan reported that resident of Vahdat, Mamadjonova Shokhida Davlatjonovna, born in 1977, is suspected of extremism and has been taken into custody. A criminal case has been initiated against her under Article 307, Supplement 3, Part 2 (organization of activities of an extremist organization) of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan.

She was also accused of connections with “Group 24,” which on February 10 issued a statement that “neither Sherzod Makhmadjonov nor his mother Shokhida Mamadjonova have any relation to the political movement ‘Group 24.’”

Her relatives also reject the accusations, explaining that by arresting Shokhida Mamadjonova, the authorities want her son, Sherzod Makhmadjonov, to stop criticizing the government and return to Tajikistan.