Oishamo Abdulloeva, the mother of self-exiled opposition leader Sharofiddin Gadoev, told RFE/RL on October 12 that authorities cut off electricity to her house a day earlier over her son's political activities in Europe. "They told me 'Your son criticized the president [Emomali Rahmon] in Germany and we got an order from above,'" Abdulloeva said. Self-exiled Tajik activists said earlier that their relatives were under pressure after Central Asian activists pelted the car of President Emomali Rahmon with eggs while he was in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in late September. To read the original story by RFE/RL' Tajik Service, click here.
Tajik Authorities Cut Off Electricity In House Of Self-Exiled Opposition Leader's Mother
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