Former Tajik Prime Minister Arrested in Kiev

Ukrainian authorities this week detained a former Tajik politician, who has long been living in the United States, and got permission from a local court Thursday to keep him in custody for 40 more days in anticipation of an extradition request from Tajikistan, according to Ukrainian prosecutors. The former prime minister and one-time rival of Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Abdumalik Abdullojonov, was detained Tuesday at Ukraine’s Borispol Airport outside of Kiev, reportedly under an international arrest warrant issued by Tajikistan some 16 years ago. Tajik authorities accuse Abdullojonov of organizing a 1997 assassination attempt against Rakhmon, in which the president sustained a gun wound to the leg, and of supporting an uprising by Col. Makhmud Khudoyberdyyev in November 1998. Both events took place in northern Tajikistan, Abdullojonov’s home region. In media interviews at the time, Abdullojonov denied any involvement in Tajik politics.

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