Murder in Roshtkalin District and Protests in Khorog

Law enforcement officers in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region shot a local resident in his own home in the Roshtkala district.

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After the young man was killed, residents carried his body to the center of the region and demand that the authorities answer for what crime he was killed.

According to a source from Azda TV in Khorog, on the night of November 24 to 25, a resident of the Roshtkala district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Gulbuddin Ziyobekov, was shot in the head by officers from the regional prosecutor’s office in his own home.

The leader of the protest movement “Vatandor,” Dododjon Atovulloev, called the murder of Gulbuddin Ziyobekov a “terrorist act” on his Facebook page, stating that it was carried out by an “armed group in masks.”

Pamir Daily News also reports on its Facebook page that after the murder of Gulbuddin Ziyobekov, “reports are coming from Khorog that the situation has worsened and gunshots can be heard.” A group of young people from the region has also gathered in the center of Khorog and intends to organize a protest.

An Azda TV source also reported that law enforcement had likely dealt with Gulbuddin Ziyobekov before, as he was one of the participants in last year’s protests in Khorog, when one of the prosecutors harassed a girl from the Roshtkala district. Gulbuddin was one of those who made that prosecutor apologize.

The source also reported that before arriving at Gulbuddin Ziyobekov’s home, the prosecutor’s office employees stopped at a gas station to buy fuel. An employee of the gas station learned of their intentions, immediately contacted Gulbuddin, and informed him. However, their conversation was overheard by the State National Security Committee (GKNB) officers, who immediately detained the gas station employee and then sent the killers to Gulbuddin Ziyobekov’s home.