A court in Tajikistan has actually bied far jail sentences of in between 8 and twenty years to more than 30 individuals it founded guilty of attempting to toxin guests of a celebration in 2015, the district attorney general’s workplace stated on Friday.
A source in the Tajik security services informed Reuters the founded guilty individuals were all connected to Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), the Afghan spin-off of Islamic State.
Islamic State, the terrorist group that as soon as looked for control over swathes of Iraq and Syria, declared obligation for a mass shooting at an auditorium near Moscow in 2015 which left 145 individuals dead.
Targeting a celebration
Tajik district attorneys stated the accuseds had actually tried to toxin food served to guests of a Nowruz, or New Year, celebration last March in Vahdat, a little city east of the capital Dushanbe.
10 more individuals are desired for the criminal offense, the head of the department for combating terrorism and extremism in the attorney general of the United States’s workplace, Jumanazar Sayidakhmadzoda, informed press reporters. He did not state precisely the number of individuals had actually been sentenced.
Tajikistan is a landlocked nation of some 10 million individuals sandwiched in between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Most of Tajiks are followers of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.
3 terrorist attacks were performed in the nation in 2024 and 2 attacks were prevented, the interior minister stated today.
Previously this month, 9 detainees who had actually been founded guilty over links to Islamic State and the Jihadi Salafi motion attacked guards at a jail in Vahdat in an escape effort, leaving 5 prisoners dead.
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