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Tajikistani politician
Yaqub Salimov
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'Yaqub Salimov (Tajik: Яъқуб Салимов/Persian: یعقوب سلیموف) is a former minister of the interior of the Tajik SSR.
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In 1990, Yaqub Salimov was convicted for taking part in Dushanbe riots. When Tajik Civil War broke out, Salimov was released from prison, and become a leader of Popular Front, a paramilitary group fighting on the government side. In 1997, he was charged with attempting a coup d'etat. Afterwards, he fled from Tajikistan but was arrested in Moscow in 2003 and extradited to Tajikistan.
On April 25, 2005, he received 15 years in prison sentence. Yaqub Salimov was released on June 21, 2016.
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