BISHKEK. July 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The Kyrgyz Prosecutor's General Office has asked the Tajik authorities to extradite Col. Makhammadi Salimzody, an officer of the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry, who was convicted in Tajikistan to the Kyrgyzstan.
"The Prosecutor's Office received an appeal from the colonel's daughter Shoira Salimzody on June 18 in which she asked to assist the transfer of her father from Tajikistan to Kyrgyzstan to further serve his sentence," the Kyrgyz Prosecutor's General Office reported.
"Extradition is the only thing that the Kyrgyz side can make for Salimzody. But practice shows that this is a very lengthy procedure and takes around a year," Spokesman for the Kyrgyz ombudsman Azimbek Akmatov said.
According to local media, Salimzody was arrested in Dushanbe in 2008 and sentenced to 29 years in prison this year on charges of coup d'etat and espionage. The convict claimed at the trial that the charges are concocted.