A protest action was held outside the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe today morning.  Among the protesters was mother of Hussein Abdusamadov, the alleged ringleader behind the July's deadly attack on foreign cyclists in Danghara.  She was threatening to commit self-immolation. 

Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, locally known as Radio Ozodi, reports dozens of people gathered outside the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe today morning to protest against participation of the leader of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) Muhiddin Kabiri and other opposition activists in the annual OSCE human rights conference that will open in Warsaw on Monday.

The demonstrators, mostly young people, were carrying signs saying, “Down with IRPT.”

Among the demonstrators was Gulchehra Shodmonova, the mother of Hussein Abdusamadov, the alleged ringleader behind the July's deadly attack on foreign cyclists in the Danghara district.  She also protested against Muhiddin Kabiri, accusing him and his party of leading young people astray and making them terrorists.  She was threatening to commit self-immolation but police officers prevented her from doing that.      

Police dispersed the protesters, according to RFE/RL Tajik Service.