The police detained four residents of the Yazgulom community in the Vanch district of GBAO in Russia and extradited them to Tajikistan. According to Radio Ozodi, all four were placed on an international wanted list in Tajikistan and were detained while making a payment for a patent at the Multifunctional Migration Center in Moscow. They […]
The police detained four residents of the Yazgulom community in the Vanch district of GBAO in Russia and extradited them to Tajikistan.
According to Radio Ozodi, all four were placed on an international wanted list in Tajikistan and were detained while making a payment for a patent at the Multifunctional Migration Center in Moscow.
They are currently being held in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Dushanbe.
Relatives brought them clothes and food. However, relatives were not allowed to visit the detainees.
According to relatives, all detainees are residents of the Budun village in the Yazgulom community and were working in Russia to support their families.
The Tajik authorities have not yet commented on the detention and extradition of the four Yazgulom residents to Tajikistan.
This is not the first case of Yazgulom residents being detained.
In March of this year, Tajik law enforcement agencies detained more than 20 residents of the “Darvoz” neighborhood in the Firdavsi district of Dushanbe, most of whom were relatives. Only one of them was later released.
It was also previously reported that about 20 residents of Vanch were extradited from Russia to Tajikistan. They were said to have been detained for interacting with a group of Vanch residents accused of “extremism.”
Informed sources told Radio Ozodi that they were “preparing to commit terrorist acts in Tajikistan,” but the relatives of the detainees rejected these accusations.
The authorities have not officially confirmed or denied the detention of these individuals.
In May 2024, Azda.tv reported on a special operation by the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan in the Yazgulom Valley in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, during which more than 20 people were detained.
After some time, the first deputy minister of internal affairs of Tajikistan, Abdurakhmon Alamshozoda, confirmed this information in August 2024, stating that law enforcement agencies had detained 27 people on suspicion of membership in the “Jamaat Ansarullah” group, and four others were placed on the wanted list.
However, in December 2024, the Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced 31 residents of the Yazgulom community in the Vanch district to prison terms ranging from 2 to 23 years on charges of extremist activities. The opinions of the convicted individuals are not yet available.