Former KGB employee accused of extremism

Three days after his detention, it became clear that he was in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ detention center.

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According to Radio Ozodi, 72-year-old Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov (Mukhamadi Sultan), a former employee of Tajikistan’s state security agencies, who was detained last week, is currently in the detention center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dushanbe.

It was previously reported that on Thursday morning, Mavlonazarov was detained by nine individuals in police uniforms and taken away in an unknown direction. The elderly man was not even allowed to put on shoes and was taken away barefoot.

The former KGB employee of Tajikistan is accused of extremism. It is still unknown under which article of the Criminal Code the criminal case has been initiated.

One of the close relatives of the former KGB employee told Radio Ozodi that Mavlonazarov’s whereabouts became known almost three days after his detention. It is unclear whether he has been provided with a lawyer.

72-year-old Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov is a native of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.

It is reported that in the 1970s, Mavlonazarov worked as a correspondent for the youth newspaper “Komsomoli Tojikiston.”

He also worked in the State Security Committee and holds the rank of colonel.

He is currently retired and regularly criticizes the actions of the authorities on social media, including in Badakhshan.

In one of his recent posts after a search of his apartment, Mavlonazarov wrote: “The employees of Academician S. Yatimov, trampling on all human rights norms, ‘heroically’ continue the open and extrajudicial persecution, reminiscent of the terrible year of 1937 and Beria.”