Tajikistan condemns the “torture” suffered by citizens detained for the Moscow terrorist attacks

April 12 () –

The authorities of Tajikistan have condemned the alleged torture to which some of their citizens detained for their involvement in the attacks at the end of March in Moscow, in which more than 140 people died, were subjected.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, Sirojiddin Muhriddin, has described these practices as “unacceptable” and has called on the Russian authorities to comply with international principles and standards to investigate what happened on March 22 at the Crocus concert hall. Moscow City Hall.

“The use of torture in the form of bodily mutilations is unacceptable. The price of confessions extracted in this way is well known to everyone,” denounced the head of Tajik diplomacy, according to the Russian media Meduza.

In turn, Muhriddin has reproached the Russian authorities for the “ill-conceived information campaign” regarding this issue, which has generated a poor international image of Tajikistan and its citizens.

Muhriddin spoke in these terms while passing through Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they met with the rest of the foreign ministers of the other countries that make up the Community of Independent States, including Russia.

At least a dozen people, most of them Tajik nationals, have been arrested for their involvement in the terrorist attacks of March 22 in Moscow, including the four perpetrators, who showed clear symptoms of mistreatment when they had to appear before the court. court.

The attack, in which more than 550 people were also injured, was quickly claimed by the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State. Despite this, the Kremlin refuses to rule out the involvement of the Ukrainian Government.