JAILED TAJIK OPPOSITION LEADER ABDUCTED, LAWYERS SAY
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.Visit also
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