DUSHANBE, June 6, 2014, Asia-Plus – Russian news agency BaltInfo reports that Tajik national, who has been sentenced to long jail term for drug trafficking, has hanged himself in Moscow’s pretrial detention facility # 5.

According to BaltInfo, the 34-year-old Tajik national was found hanging by his t-shirt in cell on June 5.

On Wednesday June 4, the Moscow Nikulinskiy District Court sentenced him to 19½ years in prison.  After pronouncement of the verdict, the man was taken to the pretrial detention facility, where he hanged himself, BaltInfo said.