Across Asia: Tajikistan
China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-08 07:50
Ex-warlord jailed for 15 yrs
Tajikistan's supreme court has found a former rebel warlord guilty of murdering a BBC journalist in 1995 and jailed him for 15 years, a court spokesman said yesterday.
Mukhiddin Olimpur, the BBC's chief Farsi language service correspondent in Tajikistan, was killed at the height of a civil war that pitted Tajikistan's Russian-backed government against an alliance of Islamists and liberals.
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