According to the Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyzstan, 25 citizens of Tajikistan are held in prisons in Tajikistan. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Justice Orozbek Sydykov on June 12 at a meeting of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan. It is reported that the deputies of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan are considering a draft law […]
According to the Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyzstan, 25 citizens of Tajikistan are held in prisons in Tajikistan.
This was reported by Deputy Minister of Justice Orozbek Sydykov on June 12 at a meeting of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan.
It is reported that the deputies of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan are considering a draft law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Kyrgyz Republic (to the Penal Enforcement Code, Criminal Code).”
Orozbek Sydykov stated that 1,587 citizens of Kyrgyzstan are serving sentences in places of detention abroad, of which 25 are in Tajikistan.
He emphasized that after the adoption of this law, once the Supreme Court makes a decision on the regimes, each case will be considered individually.
The Deputy Minister of Justice of Kyrgyzstan did not explain the charges for which the 25 citizens of this country are serving sentences in Tajik prisons. The authorities of Tajikistan have also not commented on this information yet.
While the Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyzstan informed the deputies about its citizens held in prisons abroad, thousands of citizens of Tajikistan have been held in prisons in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and other countries for various reasons for many years, but over the past decades, the authorities of Tajikistan have not officially reported to the public about their numbers and have not taken any actions for their release.