Shokhida Makhmadjonova has been transferred to a pre-trial detention center

Shokhida Makhmadjonova has been transferred to the Dushanbe pre-trial detention center (SIZO). This was reported to Asia-Plus by Shokhida Makhmadjonova’s mother, Idimokh Makhmadjonova.

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Idimokh Makhmadjonova reported that she has been bringing packages to her daughter for two days, but she is being denied a visit with her.

Idimokh Makhmadjonova stated that she needs to obtain permission for a visit with her daughter. Due to her illness, she was unable to get it.

Before being transferred to the SIZO, Shokhida Makhmadjonova was held in the temporary detention facility of the Interior Ministry of Dushanbe.

Earlier, Sherzod Makhmadjonov, a Tajik blogger living in Germany and known by the nickname “Abdurakhmon-09,” told Azda TV that on February 2, police officers in Vahdat summoned his mother, Shokhida Makhmadjonova, to the station to retrieve her mobile phone, which was in the possession of the officers. When his mother arrived at the organized crime department of the Interior Ministry in Vahdat on February 3, she was detained.

On February 8, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan reported that Shokhida Davlatjonovna Makhmadjonova, a resident of Vahdat, born in 1977, is suspected of extremism and has been taken into custody. A criminal case has been initiated against her under Article 307, Supplement 3, Part 2 (organization of extremist activity) of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan.

She was also accused of connections with the “Group 24.” On February 10, the political movement “Group 24” issued a statement that “neither Sherzod Makhmadjonov nor his mother Shokhida Makhmadjonova have any relation to the political movement ‘Group 24’.”

Her relatives also reject the accusations, stating that with the arrest of Shokhida Makhmadjonova, the authorities want her son, Sherzod Makhmadjonov, known as Abdurakhmon-09, to stop opposing the government and return to Tajikistan.