Tajik prison guards shoot jailed Iranian national
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 19 May 2014 |
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May 19, 2014
By RFE/RL's Tajik Service
Tajik prison guards say they shot an Iranian citizen after he tried to escape from a penal colony in the town of Yavan, 54 kilometers south of the capital, Dushanbe.
Officials at Tajikistan's Directorate to Monitor Penitentiaries told RFE/RL on May 19 that Mehdi Kambari was wounded in the incident on May 16 and sent to a prison hospital.
An inmate, who asked not to be identified, told RFE/RL by phone that Kambari could not stand the penitentiary's harsh conditions and decided to escape, with plans to reach the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe.
Embassy officials told RFE/RL that they are working on obtaining detailed information on the incident from Tajik authorities.
Kambari has served eight months of a three-year prison term he received for illegally crossing the Tajik border.
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