Tajik journalist Mamadshoev was accused of calling for overthrow of power

Tajik journalist and human rights activist Ulfathonym (Ulfat) Mamadshoev is accused of public calls to overthrow the authorities, Radio Ozodi (Tajik Bureau “Radio Liberty”) with reference to the informed source.

According to him, a criminal case was instituted against Mamadshoyeva under part 2 of article 307 (public calls for a violent change in the constitutional system of the Republic of Tajikistan ”) of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan. She threatens from 8 to 15 years in prison.

Employees of the State Committee of the National Security of Tajikistan (GKNB) detained Mamadshoyev on the morning of May 18, a search was carried out in her apartment in Dushanbe. The journalist was taken to the GKNB building, where she refused to answer questions from investigators without a lawyer. Later, a defender hired by relatives was admitted to her.

GKNB and Prosecutor General of Tajikistan do not comment on the detention of Mamadshoeva, the lawyer refuses to talk with journalists, as he signed a receipt of non -disclosure of information about her case.

On May 19, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan was called Ulfat Mamadshoev, as well as the General General GKNB Holbashev, General GKNB Holbashev, who overlap the Members of the organized crime group, overlapping May 17-18, the Dushanbe -Khorog -Kulma Rushansky District of the Gorno -Badakhshanskaya Autonomous Region (GBAO) After which the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the beginning of the anti -terrorist operation in the region. Prior to this, on May 17, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the Ulfat, together with the Badakhshansky informal leader Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov and the oppositionist Alim Sherzamonov, organized an “illegal rally” in Khorog on May 16