The Tajik authorities continue repression against national and religious minorities living in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
Residents of the region say that civil activists in Khorog and Rushan continue to be called in for so-called “conversations” and interrogations, forcing them to write receipts that they will no longer take any action against the current government.
Thus, a representative of the Aga Khan Foundation told the media that the former consul of Prince Aga Khan lV in Tajikistan, the president of the Ismaili Council for Tajikistan, Sharofat Mamadambarova, was interrogated by employees of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan for two days.
According to this source, Mamadambarova was allowed to go home after being interrogated. No other details of the interrogation were released.
Sharofat Mamadambarova was born in 1954 in Khorog. After graduating from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute, she worked there as a teacher, and head of the department, in 1990 she defended her thesis.
During the civil war from 1993 to 2000, she was in Khorog, where she taught the course “Humanity”.
Then Mamadambarova was appointed coordinator of the Aga Khan Humanities Project, which is part of the University of Central Asia.
At one time she was the consul of Prince Aga Khan lV in Tajikistan, the president of the Ismaili Council for Tajikistan.
