Forum18: Mulloyev 12yr secret trial Tabligh

Forum 18 News Service, reporting from Oslo on 23 January 2020, documents the case of 35-year-old Muslim Sadriddin Mulloyev, sentenced on 2 January 2020 by a Dushanbe court to 12 years in a strict-regime prison after a closed trial. The article states Mulloyev was punished for earlier membership of the Tabligh Jamaat missionary movement, which Tajikistan’s Supreme Court banned in 2006, and was additionally accused of supporting mercenary activity. Prosecutors brought charges under Criminal Code Articles 187, 307-2, 307-3 and 401. Judge Mirzo Odinazoda of Dushanbe’s Sino District Court handed down the verdict. Mulloyev had returned voluntarily to Tajikistan from Turkey in February 2019 after authorities promised amnesty, but was arrested in September 2019. His father Hairiddin Mulloyev said the family would appeal. The report also documents related cases: Jehovah’s Witness Shamil Khakimov (jailed seven years six months in Khujand on 10 September 2019), conscientious objector Jovidon Bobojonov held since October 2019, Pastor Bakhrom Kholmatov released 17 December 2019, and heart surgeon Abdumalik Salomov amnestied 30 October 2019. Sources cited include Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and statements from the General Prosecutor’s Office in Dushanbe.