DUSHANBE, July 6, Asia-Plus -- A military court in Khujand has started consideration of criminal proceedings instituted against persons, who are suspected of having attacked a prison in the Tajik northern city of Qairoqqum.  

According to information from the Khujand military court, four persons, including three residents of Isfara – a 28-year-old Dilshod Rahimov, a 29-year-old Abdurrahim Umarov, a 29 year-old Abdukholiq Boboyev – and one Uzbek citizen – a 28-year-old Mahmadnozir Jurayev – are in the dock.   

As it had been reported earlier, unknown men attacked a prison in Qairoqqum on January 25 this year, killing the prison warden and freeing Fathullo Rahimov, who had been detained on suspicion of having illegally possessed weapons and called for the violent overthrow of Tajikistan’s current form of government.  Prison warden Bobojon Gadoboyev was killed by the armed assailants, who escaped along with the freed prisoner.