DUSHANBE: Tajikistan authorities have convicted 170 people for being involved in last year’s coup attempt, the Central Asian nation’s prosecutor general said Thursday.
The putsch was orchestrated last September by Tajik Deputy Defense Minister Abduhalim Nazarzoda, who was killed alongside some 60 loyalists by security forces in his hideout in mountains.
“Criminal cases were launched against some 200 peopl. We gathered solid evidence against them,” Prosecutor-General Yusuf Rahmon said, adding 170 had been convicted of having played a role in the failed coup.
The government started a crackdown in the aftermath of the coup, banning the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) as a terrorist organization and arresting a dozen of its senior members.
