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Azerbaijan extradites Tajik citizen wanted internationally to his home country

28 July 2025 12:58 (UTC +04:00)

A citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan, who is on an international wanted list, has been extradited to his country by Azerbaijan, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan told APA.

The request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Tajikistan for the extradition of Mirzoyev Saddam Romishovich, a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan, born in 1999, who was accused of participating in the activities of a banned organization engaged in extremist activities and was put on an international wanted list, for criminal liability, was granted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

S.R. Mirzoyev was identified and detained in Azerbaijan in March of this year, and a preventive measure of arrest was chosen for him.

A decision was made to extradite the accused in accordance with the Convention "On Legal Aid and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters" dated 07.10.2002, and the latter was transferred to the authorized body of the Republic of Tajikistan, accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.