Where is Abdullokhi Shamsiddin? Did Tajikistan deceive Germany?

Concerns of relatives and close ones of Abdullahi Shamsiddin, deported from Germany to Tajikistan, are growing.

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On January 23, Shamsiddin Said, a political figure and one of the leaders of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, told Azda TV that, “unfortunately, there is no information about Abdullo’s fate.”

“Since Abdullo’s deportation from Germany to Tajikistan, we, his relatives and close ones, still do not have accurate information about where and under what conditions my son is being held,” said Shamsiddin Said.

After the deportation of Abdullahi Shamsiddin, which was facilitated by the Tajik embassy in Berlin, neither the Ministry of Internal Affairs, nor the Federal Office for Migration, nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, nor the German embassy in Tajikistan responded to the letters and requests from Abdullahi Shamsiddin’s family and relatives.

Previously, the authorities of Tajikistan assured their German counterparts that the law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan had not initiated a criminal case against this activist in Tajikistan and that his life was not in danger. But today the situation has changed. Abdullo has gone missing. It has been five days without any reliable information about his fate.

After the detention of Abdullahi Shamsiddin in Germany, the Tajik embassy in Berlin issued at least twice a “certificate for return to the Republic of Tajikistan” in his name to the German authorities, based on which he was deported.

“At the moment, all our efforts are directed at obtaining reliable information from the authorities of Germany or Tajikistan about the whereabouts and condition of my son, and then we will act accordingly,” said Tajik political figure Shamsiddin Said, deeply concerned about his son’s fate.

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On January 18, the authorities of Germany deported Abdullo Shamsiddin, the son of one of the leaders of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan Shamsiddin Said, on a flight from Düsseldorf to Istanbul to Dushanbe. Some sources report that law enforcement officers took Abdullahi Shamsiddin from Dushanbe International Airport separately from other passengers and took him in an unknown direction.

Almost a week later, neither the State Committee for National Security, nor the Ministry of Internal Affairs, nor the Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan have reported anything about the fact of Abdullahi Shamsiddin’s detention or his place of custody.