Reaction to the authorities’ propaganda film

Accusations against Pamiri activists are not just nonsense, but a deliberate lie, said Anora Sarkorova.

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Well-known journalist and activist Anora Sarkorova wrote on her Telegram channel that all those who are still shocked by the propaganda film of the Tajik authorities about the alleged connections of Pamiri activists with unnamed Western representatives, from whom they supposedly received money to destabilize the situation in Tajikistan, should understand that the country’s special services and law enforcement agencies have many tools to obtain the necessary confessions.

In addition to torture and physical abuse of detainees, security forces blackmail suspects with the lives of their children and loved ones.

For this reason, it is not surprising that completely innocent people begin to incriminate themselves and agree to voice pre-prepared texts from the GKNB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“I know firsthand how so-called interrogations and preventive conversations take place in Tajik law enforcement agencies. Over many years of working in Tajikistan, I often had to visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the GKNB, where I was invited for ‘conversations.’ During one of the last preventive discussions, a GKNB officer directly threatened me that my daughters would be killed or raped. At that time, my eldest daughter was 6 years old and my youngest was 1 year old. I won’t even mention the threats against me; they are a given, so to speak, a standard set of phrases and words to influence the interlocutor. It is impossible to prove these threats later,” the journalist emphasized.

Sarkorova reported that, firstly, it is impossible to make audio recordings of such conversations. All recording devices and gadgets are confiscated at the entrance to these agencies, and secondly, according to the rules, the invited person signs non-disclosure papers.

“Therefore, I am personally not surprised why the well-known human rights defender and journalist Ulfatkhanim Mamadshoeva and the general of the border troops of the GKNB of Tajikistan Kholbash Kholbashov incriminated themselves and confessed to things they never committed and could not commit. Blackmailing with the lives of loved ones is the most effective means of pressure on detainees,” Sarkorova noted.