TAJIKISTAN not limited to a specific time frame but has been put in place indefinitely. Abdumannon Holikov, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutionality, has been quoted as saying that the effects of the moratorium will be monitored, and, if circumstances warrant, full abolition may follow.102 The moratorium applies to those who were sentenced to death prior to 30 April 2004 and to those convicted of crimes for which the death penalty is envisaged after 30 April 2004. In the first case, the death sentences are to be commuted to 25 years' imprisonment, and, in the second case, a sentence of 25 years' imprisonment is to be passed as opposed to the death penalty. The persons subjected to the moratorium are currently detained in pre-trial detention facilities. Method of execution Shooting103 STATISTICS Access to statistics on the death penalty Official statistics on sentences and executions are not made public.104 Death sentences Official statistics were not provided. According to unofficial statistics compiled from media reports and information received from non-governmental organizations, at least 15 persons were sentenced to death in the period from 30 June 2003 to 30 June 2004. Executions Official statistics were not provided. However, four men – Rachabmurod Chumayev, Umed Idiyev, Akbar Radzhabov, and Mukharam Fatkhulloyev – were executed in the same month that the moratorium was announced.105 According to unofficial statistics compiled from media reports and information received from non-governmental organizations, at least two others were executed in the period from 30 June 2003 to 30 April 2004. 102 103 104 105 Tajikistan Daily Digest, Eurasianet, 4 June 2004. Article 219(2), Criminal Executive Code, 6 August 2001. This article also provides that executions shall not be carried out in public. Article 9 (22), Law “On the enumeration of information constituting a state secret”, 10 May 2002. At the time of the execution, the cases of Rachabmurod Chumayev and Umed Idiyev were pending before the UN Human Rights Committee. 33