Nephew of Said Abdullo Nuri detained in Khatlon region

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khatlon region detained Nusratullo Saidov, the nephew of the late founder of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, Said Abdullo Nuri.

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Relatives of the detained individual informed Azda TV that on January 24 of this year at 16:00 local time, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khatlon region summoned Nusratullo Saidov and at least 4-5 other individuals for questioning.

According to the source, after the questioning, the police released Nusratullo Saidov’s associates, but he himself was still not freed.

Police in the Khatlon region had previously summoned and interrogated Nusratullo Saidov, as well as relatives of other Tajik opposition figures. Typically, they were called to the police station, the State National Security Committee, or the prosecutor’s office once or twice a month, and sometimes law enforcement officers would visit them “for a chat.”

According to Nusratullo Saidov’s relatives, this time, when they were called for questioning, the tone of the police officers was different from the start; they spoke to them rudely.

Earlier, the Civil Committee for the Protection of Political Hostages and Prisoners in Tajikistan, in its statement linked the detention of Nusratullo Saidov to the legal activities of Said Abdullo Nuri’s son. “Nusratullo Saidov was detained two weeks after Muhammadjon was appointed as the deputy chairman of the Civil Committee for the Protection of Political Hostages and Prisoners in Tajikistan,” the statement noted.

The 48-year-old Nusratullo Saidov was previously an imam-khatib at one of the mosques in the Vakhsh district. After being dismissed from this position, he primarily engaged in agricultural activities. Saidov is the director of the “Istiklol” farm in the Nuriddin village of the Tajikabad jamoat (formerly the “Turkmenistan” state farm) in the Vakhsh district.