The Diplomat: 30-year sentence for Group 24 leader Sharifov (after forced disappearance)

This article from The Diplomat, titled “30-Year Sentence for Group 24 Leader in Tajikistan After Forced Disappearance,” was published in October 2024 at thediplomat.com/2024/10/30-year-sentence-for-group-24-leader-in-tajikistan-after-forced-disappearance/ and appears in the Politics section of the country-of-origin library. The archived PDF held in the collection contains only a Cloudflare security-verification challenge page — the article body did not render into the saved file — so the specific factual contents of the piece cannot be summarised directly from the saved document. Based on the title, URL and the library’s topic tagging, the report is understood to concern a 30-year prison sentence imposed by a Tajik court on the leader of the banned opposition movement Group 24 following a forced disappearance, set against the wider pattern documented by HRW, RFE/RL and others in which Group 24 members have been tracked outside Tajikistan, returned under duress, and prosecuted in closed proceedings. Group 24 was banned as “extremist” by Tajikistan’s Supreme Court in October 2014, and its founder Umarali Kuvvatov was shot dead in Istanbul in March 2015. Readers needing the full text should consult the original Diplomat URL and the related HRW and RFE/RL reports held in this library. This entry is retained as a bibliographic pointer to the original publication rather than as a substantive extract.