On March 11, Group 24 – a banned Tajik opposition movement – issued a statement that its leader, Sohrab Zafar, had gone missing from Turkey.
“His phone is also switched off. It is not known where he is,” the statement said.
Zafar, who has lived in Turkey since October 2014, is the second Group 24 member to go missing in the country in less than a month. On February 25, Zafar told RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Radio Ozodi, that Nasimjon Sharifov, another Group 24 activist, had left his home on February 23 and had not been heard from since.
As of writing, the two men remain missing…
