DUSHANBE, April 12, 2011, Asia-Plus -- Dushanbe prosecutor’s office will continue an investigation into the death Dushanbe resident Safarali Sangov, the first Deputy Prosecutor-General, Abduqodir Muhammadiyev, told reporters in Dushanbe on April 12.

According to him, investigation into the death of Sangov has been opened under the provisions of the articles on misuse of powers and negligence.

We will recall that Sangov’s relatives say Safarali Sangov, 37, died on March 5 several days after he was beaten and taken from his house by plainclothes officers.   

Sangov''s wife, Sarvinoz, told Asia-Plus that on March 1, a group of men in civilian clothes, who were evidently from a police station in Dushanbe''s Sino district, entered their house, beat her husband, and took him away.  She found him later in a coma in the resuscitation department of the National Medical Center.

In the meantime, police say Sangov, who they suspected of drugs possession, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of the window from the second floor of the police station.