Trial Starts for Suspect in Tourist Killings in Tajikistan

A man who swore allegiance to the Islamic State militant group before killing four foreign cyclists in ex-Soviet Tajikistan went on trial Tuesday in a process closed to the public. Tajikistan's Supreme Court spokesperson told AFP Tuesday the trial for the "brutal murder of four foreign cyclists" had begun in the suspect's high-security detention center. Hussein Abdusamadov, 33, already confessed to killing American cycling tourists Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin,...

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