QURGHON TEPPA, April 15, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Resident of the Shahritous district in Khatlon province has been detained for calling on young Tajik men to go to war in Syria.

An official source at the Shahritous administration says resident of Shahritous, Husein Odinamahmadov, also known as Qori Husein, was detained in Moscow last month on suspicion of recruiting young Tajik men to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.

Odinamahmadov has already been extradited to Tajikistan and he is currently being held in a detention center in Qurghon Teppa, the capital of Khatlon province, the source said.

He has reportedly recruited three Tajik nationals and sent them to Turkey for further sending to Syria.

Representative of the Khatlon law enforcement authorities confirmed the information about the arrest of Husein Odinamahmadov but he refrained from giving further details.  He just said that criminal proceedings have been instituted against Odinamahmadov and the preliminary investigation has been carried out by the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)’s office in Khatlon.