RIA Novosti video from the Embassy of the Czech Republic Tajikistan. In Moscow, a crowd of several hundred gathered at Granatny Lane near the Tajik embassy building. The entrance to the embassy building is guarded by reinforced police platoons. Entry into the diplomatic mission is closed. Several flashing police buses are parked nearby.
The spontaneous assembly of the citizens of Tajikistan near the country's embassy is connected with the events that took place today in Khorog – the administrative center of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. There, too, a huge rally gathered with a demand to bring to justice security staff who shot dead a 29-year-old village resident of Tavdem Gulbiddin Ziyobekov.
Social media groups in Tajikistan report that a crowd carried the body of a murdered man through the city streets. Then a shootout began in Khorog. According to preliminary data, there are victims.
Ziyobekov was shot dead when law enforcement officers came to his house to arrest him. However, the young man defended himself. As a result of the shooting, Ziyobekov was killed and two other residents of Tavdem village were injured. At the same time, some eyewitnesses refute the official version and say that neither Ziyobekov nor other men resisted.
The GBAO prosecutors' press center claims that the killed man shot at security forces with a pistol. . Criminal proceedings against Ziyobekov were launched after he took GBAO A. Abirzoda, an assistant prosecutor from the Roshtkala GBAO area, hostage last February and beat him for 8 hours. He and his accomplices did not testify. Locals say Ziyobekov and other men did it because the prosecutor harassed one of the girls and demanded an apology.
Social media reports that security forces allegedly opened fire at a rally in Khorog and killed one. person and six were injured. According to them, the army is now attracted to the city.