Irgashev and his associates have been delivered to Dushanbe

The State Committee for National Security has delivered 7 detained members of the “Commission-44” from Badakhshan to Dushanbe.

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According to Radio Ozodi, among those detained are Faromuz Irgashev, a human rights activist and an unregistered candidate in the 2020 presidential elections in Tajikistan, as well as civil society activists Muzaffar Muborakshoev, Khursand Mamadshoev, and others.

A source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Radio Ozodi that “they are accused of receiving money from Mukiddin Kabiri, the chairman of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and the National Alliance of Tajikistan.”

The country’s law enforcement agencies have not yet reported the reasons for the activists’ detention. The opinions of the detainees and their relatives are also unavailable.

Following the murder of Mahmadbokir Mahmadbokirov in Badakhshan, law enforcement agencies began to detain civil society activists en masse. At the end of May, the Pamir Daily News portal reported that more than a dozen members of the “Commission 44” had been summoned for questioning, and most of them are still in custody.