KHUJAND, August 31, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Homidboy Karimov, former director of bazaar in the Surkh Jamoat in Isfara district, Sughd province  was shot to death from assault rifle Kalashnikov on August 30.

According to unofficial sources, Homidboy Karimov, who was serving the remainder of his sentence  in the open-prison settlement, visited his uncle in the Surkh Jamoat on August 30 for iftor (the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan).  When Karimov was leaving his uncle’s house, a car came up to the house and unidentified gunman shot Karimov to death from assault rifle Kalashnikov.

Isfara law enforcement authorities say Homidboy Karimov was member of one of criminal groupings that brutally beaten a local resident in May 2006.  Five confederates of Karimov were sentenced to prison between 9 and 13 years that time, while Karimov himself managed to flee.  He was later detained and sentenced to nine years in prison.