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| Tajikistan says 7 fugitives caught in Afghanistan |
| 2011-10-19 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Tajikistan's state security service says seven of the 25 prisoners who decamped in a brazen jailbreak in August have been recaptured in neighboring Afghanistan. National State Security Committee front man Nozirdzhon Buriyev said Monday that among the captured runaways are two Tajiks convicted on charges that included attempting to violently overthrow the government and three Afghan citizens incarcerated for arms trafficking and murder. The violent breakout this summer dealt an embarrassing blow to the Central Asian nation's government that has faced what it called an Islamist insurgency. This weekend's arrests bring the tally of runaways killed or recaptured up to 17. |
| Posted by:Fred |