Tajik Regional Prosecutor Calls Pilots’ Sentences ‘Too Harsh’

QURGHONTEPPA, Tajikistan — A prosecutor in southern Tajikistan has described as “too harsh” the jail terms handed down last week to two pilots working for a Russian aviation company, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports. Shokhrukh Rajabov of the Khatlon Province Prosecutor’s Office told RFE/RL on November 15 that his office has officially challenged the Qurghonteppa city […]