The trial of Mukhamadi Sulton has begun

The trial of former KGB employee of Tajikistan Mukhamadi Sulton has begun in Dushanbe.

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According to Radio Ozodi, on September 7, the trial of Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov (Mukhamadi Sulton), a former employee of the state security agencies of Tajikistan, began in Dushanbe.

Representatives of the Sino district court informed the defendant’s relatives that the trial of Mukhamadi Sulton would be open. However, press representatives were not allowed to attend the court.

It is reported that Mukhamadi Sulton faces charges under Article 307, Part 2 (“public calls for violent change of the constitutional order using mass media or the internet”) and Article 330, Part 2 (“insulting a representative of authority in mass media or the internet”) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Mukhamadi Sulton himself rejected the charges a week ago and stated that he considers himself innocent.

“Mamadsulton is not complaining about his health. He said he considers himself innocent, everything he wrote on Facebook is true and anyone can verify it. He denies the accusation of public calls for violent change of the constitutional order and says he did not insult any representatives of authority,” a source told Radio Ozodi, who preferred to remain unnamed.

According to journalist Rustam Dzhoni, Mamadsulton Mavlonazarov stated in his letter from prison that “everything he wrote and said is true, and he will not take back a single word.” During the interrogation, he told the GKNB employees that he is not afraid of them and is ready for anything.

The 72-year-old Mukhamadi Sulton was an employee of the youth newspaper “Komsomoli Tojikiston” (“Komsomolets of Tajikistan”) in the 1970s, and later, according to him, he joined the KGB of Tajikistan, where he rose to the rank of colonel.

In recent years, Mukhamadi Sulton has been posting on Facebook, where he criticized the leadership of the GKNB of Tajikistan.