Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported on March 7 that Abdullo Shamsiddin, a son of an activist of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) Shamsiddin Saidov, has been extradited to Tajikistan from Germany and is currently being held in a pretrial detention facility of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan.
Abdullo Shamsiddin's wife, Sumaya Pirova, told RFE/RL on March 7 that her husband called her a day earlier and told her that he is currently being held in SCNS-run pretrial detention center. Pirova said her husband did not say what charges he faces.
The Tajik interior minister and prosecutor-general reportedly said earlier that they had no information about Abdullo Shamsiddin.
In December, the National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT), which unites several opposition groups in exile, said Shamsiddin was facing possible deportation to Tajikistan, where he will most likely face arbitrary arrest and torture.
Recall, Shamsiddin Saidov told RFER/RL in a brief interview on December 13 last year that his 32-year-old son, Abdullo Shamsiddin, may be extradited to Tajikistan due to his failure to re-register with Germany’s migration authorities on time.
The National Alliance of Tajikistan (PMT), which unites several opposition groups in exile, said at the time that Abdullo Shamsiddin, who has reportedly lived in Germany since 2009, may be extradited to Tajikistan from Germany, where he will face arbitrary arrest and torture.
His father Shamsiddin Saidov, an activist of the IRPT in January 2018 was sentenced in absentia in Tajikistan to 15 years in prison on extremism charges and is currently residing in the European Union.
In 2017, based on a change to the Criminal Procedure Code, Tajik courts gained the right to convict accused people in absentia.
The IRPT was labeled a terrorist group and banned in 2015.
In 2014, another opposition movement, Group 24, was labeled as terrorist and extremist and banned.
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