Islamic Renaissance Party Denies Accusations of Its Involvement Into Deadly Attack on Foreign Tourists in Tajikistan

AKIPRESS.COM - The Islamic Renaissance Party denied accusation of the Tajik Interior Ministry of its involvement in fatal attack on foreign cyclists in Tajikistan and condemned it strongly.

"Those who have carried out this terrible event, explicitly declared that they have done this crime, but the Tajik authorities shamelessly ignored it. Even, there is no word about them in the statement of the Tajik Interior Ministry.

This shows that the Tajik authorities are trying to divert the attention of the local and international community from the the main actors of the incident and use it as an excuse to justify their repression against the opposition," the party said in statement on Facebook.The Islamic Renaissance Party has urged establishment of an international OSCE-led investigation committee, comprised of experts from countries whose citizens have been targeted.

Leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party Muhiddin Kabiri told Nezavisimaya Gazeta the accusation of involvement contradicts to political culture, moral, logic. "The Islamic...