Additional Name(s): Низомиддин Насриддинов

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Tajikistan

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni

Sentence: 8 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: January/8/2023

Date of Sentencing: October/5/2023

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religiously Based Political Activity Transnational Repression

Nature of Charges: Incitement to Commit Crime & Violence

Nizomiddin Nasriddinov

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Nizomiddin Nasriddinov is imprisoned for his online engagement with religiously based political parties. 

On January 8, 2023, Belarusian authorities arrested Nasriddinov as he entered the country at the request of Tajik officials.

On July 24, Belarus extradited Nasriddinov to Tajikistan, where he was placed in pre-trial detention.

In 2017, Tajikistan placed Nasriddinov, who holds refugee status and lives in Germany, on a global wanted list for his online engagement with the banned religiously affiliated political party Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and other banned political opposition groups, accusing him of committing "public calls for extremist activities." 

On October 5, 2023, the Ismoili Somoni district court sentenced Nasriddinov to eight and a half years in prison on charges of "public calls to violent change of the constitutional order of Tajikistan" (Art. 307 TCC).  

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