Name Yaqub Salimov | ||
'Yaqub Salimov (Tajik: Яъқуб Салимов/Persian: یعقوب سلیموف) Minister of the Interior of Tajikistan from December 1993 to 1995
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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 the years of civil confrontation (1992-1993) Yakub Salimov was the commander of one of the detachments of the popular front. After reconciliation he was appointed Minister of internal Affairs of Tajikistan in December 1993 .In 1995 he was relieved of this post and was made Ambassador to Turkey. 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.