Prosecutor asks for 5-year sentence for six soldiers facing charge of hazing

A court of the Dushanbe military garrison is considering a case of six soldiers of military unit 6592 of the Internal Troops of the Interior Ministry who are facing charge of hazing

A prosecutor in the trial of the servicemen asked the court on May 5 to sentence them to a five-year prison term each.

Private Akbarkhouja Abdurahmonov said today that six soldiers beat him up breaking his jaw on November 5, 2014 following his conflict with Private Dovar Abdulkhatov.

Meanwhile, the soldiers said that only Dovar Abdulkhatov had punched him and they had just been witnesses to the incident.