CA-NEWS (TJ) - A brother of jailed former presidential-guard commander Ghaffor Mirzoyev has been recaptured in Fayzobod district, some 50 kilometers east of Dushanbe, the source at one of power-wielding structures of Tajikistan told Asia-Plus today.

We will recall that Abdurasoul Mirzoyev was sentenced to 30 years in prison in July this year. The sentence followed his conviction on the charges of terrorism, illegal possession of weapons and coup attempt.

Abdurasoul Mirzoyev is the brother of General Ghaffor Mirzoev, who also headed the Tajik Drug Control Agency. Ghaffor Mirzoev was arrested in August 2004 and sentenced in 2006 to life imprisonment on charges of planning an uprising against the government, murder, and other serious crimes. The government also confiscated nearly all of the businesses and property belonging to Ghaffor and Abdurasoul Mirzoyev.

At request of Tajik authorities, Abdurasoul Mirzoyev was extradited to Tajikistan in January this year from the United Arab Emirates, where he had lived since before Ghaffor Mirzoev's arrest in 2004.

As it had been reported earlier, Abdurasoul Mirzoyev was among those 25 prisoners that escaped from the pretrial detention facility of State Committee for National Committee (GKNB) in Dushanbe on August 23.

25 convicts serving long jail terms escaped from the GKNB-run pretrial detention facility in the early hours of morning of August 23, killing five prison guards. Dressing in camouflage, the escapees reportedly fled toward the Rasht Valley in eastern Tajikistan. The majority of the fugitives were among 46 people convicted by the Supreme Court on August 19 week of terrorism, drug trafficking, and seeking the forcible overthrow of the government. The prisoners reportedly took advantage of the negligence of the jail warden.

Tajik law enforcement authorities also said on September 2 that they had recaptured one escapee in Vahdat district. His is Ibrohim Nasriddinov also known as Qori Ibrohim. Makarov pistol and F-1 hand grenade were confiscated from him.