By empty (4/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azam Badriddinov and Shirinmoh Ibronova, the lawyers defending Muhammadruzi Iskandarov, the jailed head of Tajikistan\'s Democratic Party, held a news conference in Dushanbe on 30 April to share details of Iskandarov\'s recent disappearance in Russia and reappearance in custody in Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Badriddinov and Ibronova, who recently held their first meeting with Iskandarov in custody, said he was abducted in Moscow on 16 April by a group of unidentified men of Slavic appearance wearing Russian police uniforms. They held him overnight in a sauna before handing him over to another group the next day.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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