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The Attorney General of Tajikistan, Yusuf Rahmon, confirmed the information about the detention of more than 20 people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act ahead of the Navruz holiday. However, earlier the State Committee for National Security had denied this information. On August 9, Attorney General Yusuf Rahmon announced at a press conference that […]
The Attorney General of Tajikistan, Yusuf Rahmon, confirmed the information about the detention of more than 20 people on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act ahead of the Navruz holiday. However, earlier the State Committee for National Security had denied this information.
On August 9, Attorney General Yusuf Rahmon announced at a press conference that law enforcement agencies in Tajikistan managed to prevent a terrorist act involving the poisoning of people ahead of the Navruz holiday in March 2024.
According to the Attorney General, more than 20 members of the banned terrorist organization ISIS have been detained, and their connections with other organizations are being established.
Yusuf Rahmon stated that “currently their criminal cases are under consideration in court.”
The Attorney General of Tajikistan did not explain which region the detainees are from, how they planned to poison people, or under what articles the criminal cases were initiated.
However, the day before, the first deputy minister of internal affairs of Tajikistan, Abdurakhmon Alamshozoda (Buzmakov), during a press conference of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, stated that three terrorist acts had been registered and solved in the first six months of this year, as well as two more attempts to commit terrorist acts in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Khatlon Region, and districts under republican jurisdiction.
It was previously reported that at the end of March this year, more than 20 residents of the cities of Vahdat, Rogun, and Nurek were detained.
At that time, it was reported that “the group’s goal was to carry out a terrorist act at a mass event on the occasion of Navruz in Dushanbe, in order to achieve as many casualties as possible.”
However, later the State Committee for National Security rejected this information in its statement, calling it “unverified and provocative.”
The reason for the contradictory official position of the security forces is unknown.
