Tajik Prosecutor-General Bobojon Bobokhonov said that...

Tajik Prosecutor-General Bobojon Bobokhonov said that the crime rate in 2001 was down on that of 2000. Bobokhonov said that only one of the three "terrorist acts" committed against top officials in 2001 had been solved and the perpetrators punished.
"The terrorist act committed against former Interior Minister Habib Sanginov has been solved. Those guilty (seven people in all) have been prosecuted. Four of them were sentenced to death and three received long prison sentences."
Bobokhonov also said that 5,298 people had been freed from prison as a result of the 2001 amnesty and listed drug trafficking, theft, fraud and hooliganism as the most widespread crimes in Tajikistan. He said he was against abolishing or introducing a moratorium on the death penalty at present because people who committed serious crimes during the civil war needed to be punished.
"Tajikistan has been through a civil war during which serious crimes such as sabotage, terrorist acts, attempts to seize power, the dismemberment of corpses, the murder of pregnant women and young children and so on were widespread. The people who committed these crimes are a danger to society. In order to eliminate them, I consider the application of the death penalty essential at this time."