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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 21:43
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Tajik police catch two fugitives, come upon trail of rest escapers.



6/9 Tass 206

DUSHANBE, September 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Two of the 25 fugitives who
escaped from a prison in Dushanbe have been caught in the two-week special
police operation.
One of the main organisers of the mass escape is caught. Now, the
criminals are in a trap, and they will not escape from it, an official in
the operation command told Itar-Tass.
The search area is encircled. Special police units comb a metre after
a metre through mountain areas, settlements and natural boundaries, not
leaving caves without examination, where armed Islamic opposition
militants hid during the 1992-97 civil war.
Other units station check posts at the Romit Gorge near Dushanbe,
where three days ago unidentified armed persons were noticed. Other
directions are not left without attention either, as unexpected behaviour
of the fugitives is taken into consideration.
From the first day of the search, law-enforcement authorities took the
eastern Pamir region as a priority direction, and they were not mistaken,
the source noted.
Additional security measures are taken at railway stations, airports
and checkpoints at the borders.
"The detained persons give interesting evidence," the source said,
giving no details.
One of the detained persons is a former Guantanamo prisoner who was
handed over by the American side to Tajikistan and was sentenced in his
native country to 23 years. He is Ibrokhim Nasredinov.
The other is Abdurasul Mirzoyev, a former participant in the
anti-government conspiracy. His brother, an ex-commander of the
presidential guards, Gaffor Mirzoyev, is a prisoner in the same jail in
Dushanbe. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of organisation
of a state coup d'etat in 2004.
On August 23, twenty-five convicts escaped from the prison of the
Tajik National Security Committee. Among them are five Russian citizens
from Dagestan, two Uzbek citizens and four Afghan narco-mafia members.
They all were members of the anti-government group of former Islamic
opposition field commander Mirzo Zeyev, who once was Tajik emergencies
minister, but was removed from office. He was seized in the east of the
country in a two-week operation in the summer of last year.
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