Draft:Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi

Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi
Name	Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Vakhsh, Tajikistan
Brith Date	1952 (CE)
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Death Date	2019 (CE)
Religion	Islam

Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi, known as "His Eminence Qiyamuddin", was the leader and founder of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.

Biography

Qiyamuddin Ghazi was born in 1952 (CE) into a renowned family of "His Eminences" residing in the Qazi Malik area of the Vakhsh valley, Tajikistan. His name first became prominent during gatherings and assemblies in the autumn of 1991 in the center of Dushanbe. With his inflammatory speeches, Qiyamuddin immediately became one of the first leaders of the 1992 gatherings. During the gatherings and meetings of 1992, alongside Qari Muhammadjan and Rahim Nurullah Bekov, the people of Tajikistan bestowed upon Qiyamuddin the title of "People's General".

The establishment of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan in 1972 (CE)[citation needed], holding the largest demonstrations in 1986 (CE) against the anti-religious Communist government, membership in the Assembly of Islamic Scholars of Afghanistan in the 1990s (CE), and membership in the National Reconciliation Commission in 1997 (CE) are some of the political activities of Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi. His political, social, and religious activities led to his arrest and even torture on multiple occasions, with his first arrest dating back to 1979 (CE). In 2006 (CE), following the death of Nuri and due to political pressure from the government, he apparently stepped back from political activities, but remained engaged in training students, preaching and publishing Islam, and writing.

Following the victory of the front supported by the Tajikistan government in the civil war, Qiyamuddin and some of his followers migrated to Afghanistan. In the Union of Opposition Forces (against government forces), which included a group of Tajik Islamists, nationalists, and liberals, Qiyamuddin was responsible for collecting aid for refugees, and thus traveled extensively to Iran and Arab and Muslim countries in the region to collect aid. After the peace agreement between the Union of Opposition Forces and the government, Qiyamuddin traveled to Iran in 2000 (CE) to treat his young child, who he claimed was suffering from polio.

Emomali Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, who had been attracted to Saudi oil dollars for some time and had placed some case-building against the Islamic Republic of Iran on his agenda, after arresting Qiyamuddin claimed that he had accepted the Shia religion with pockets full of dollars from our friendly country, and acting on the recommendation of that country's intelligence structure, acted against the Tajik nation! This was while after the announcement of the ban on the activities of the Islamic Renaissance Party in Tajikistan, which was contrary to democratic approaches and freedom of expression and was carried out without any legal basis, Qiyamuddin Ghazi had no political activity and was working in Russia.

Arrest of Ghazi and Political and Media Reactions

Martyr Sayyid Qiyamuddin Ghazi was arrested in November 2017 (CE) at "Pulkovo" Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, and transferred to Tajikistan. In May 2018 (CE), he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Detention Center No. 1 in Dushanbe in a trial without the presence of journalists and behind closed doors, on charges of treason, attempting to overthrow the political system, and inciting religious, national, and ethnic differences.

Assassination

Eventually, this Tajik scholar was assassinated by elements affiliated with ISIS on the evening of Sunday, 19 May 2019 (CE). It should be noted that after his head was sewn back onto his body by the Tajikistan forensic physician, he was buried secretly by the government of that country without notifying his family.