DUSHANBE, July 12, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik law enforcement officers have detained two other escapees from a last year’s high-profile jailbreak.

In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Tajik Prosecutor-General Sherkhon Salimzoda revealed on July 12 the prison escapees were detained in Jirgatol district, eastern Tajikistan at the end of last week while attempting to illegally cross the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.  According to him, they are residents of Russia’s Dagestan Republic, Kazbek Jabrailov, 25, and Nizami Abiyev, 25.

”One more person is surrounded in the area by security forces and an operation for detention of him is going on,” Salimzoda noted.

We will recall that 25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the SCNS’s detention facility in Dushanbe in the early hours of morning of August 23 2010, killing five prison guards.  Dressing in camouflage, the escapees fled toward eastern Tajikistan.  The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19, 2010 of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government.  The escaped prisoners include six Russian citizens, four Afghans, and two Uzbeks.  Most were accused of participating in the 2009 armed rebellion in Tavildara.

 A total of 17 escapees have been detained and four killed, leaving just four men involved in the jailbreak still on the run.

On May 3 this year, the Supreme Court sentenced four of the captured escapees to life imprisonment and three others received 30-year jail terms for their part in the prison break.