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Ten individuals have been sentenced to various prison terms in connection with the attempted assassination of Komil Allamjonov, the former press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan, according to the Supreme Court’s press service.
On February 12, the country’s Military Court handed down sentences to three defendants—Shukhrat Rasulov, Shokhrukh Akhmedov, and Ismoil Dzhakhongirov—each receiving 23 years in prison. Javlon Yunusov was sentenced to 18 and a half years, while Doniyor Tashkhodjayev received seven years. The names of the remaining five convicts have not been disclosed, with the court only stating that they were sentenced to varying prison terms based on their respective crimes.
Little is publicly known about the convicted individuals. According to Nova24-LIVE, Shukhrat Rasulov headed the Internal Security Directorate of Uzbekistan’s Presidential Security Service until 2020. Javlon Yunusov was apprehended in South Korea and extradited to Uzbekistan. Doniyor Tashkhodjayev previously served as the first deputy head of the Tashkent City Police Department.
The assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov took place on October 26 of last year at 1:40 a.m. local time (11:40 p.m. Moscow time) on Ifor Street in the Kibray District of Tashkent Region. Two unidentified assailants fired multiple shots at a moving Range Rover before fleeing the scene. No injuries were reported.
Later, the Prosecutor General’s Office announced the arrest of four men in connection with the incident, a number that eventually rose to seven. Authorities launched a criminal case under the country’s penal code, citing Articles 25 (“Preparation for a Crime and Attempted Crime”), 97 (“Intentional Murder”), and 248 (“Illegal Trafficking of Firearms, Ammunition, Firearm Components, Explosives, Detonators, or Explosive Devices”).
Komil Allamjonov served as the press secretary to the President of Uzbekistan from December 2017 to October 2018. He then became acting director general of the Uzbek Press and Information Agency (UzAPI), which was later restructured into the Agency of Information and Mass Communications (AIMC). His deputy at AIMC was Saida Mirziyoyeva, the daughter of the current Uzbek president.
In January 2020, Allamjonov and Mirziyoyeva left AIMC to establish the Public Foundation for the Support and Development of National Mass Media. Allamjonov chaired the foundation’s board of trustees, while Mirziyoyeva served as his deputy.
In the summer of 2022, Allamjonov returned to the presidential administration as deputy chief, overseeing public opinion research and information policy. In August 2023, he was appointed head of the administration’s information policy department but was dismissed on September 30, 2024. He later announced plans to enter the private sector.
