• Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Appeal
Independent HRDs from Uzbekistan are worried and anxious about the news they are receiving about the dreadful situation in which prisoners of conscience find themselves in their places of detention. Many of them are being bullied by fanatical staff from penal colonies, and the tyrannical supervisors in the prisons subject them to all sorts of provocations. They do not receive medical assistance in time, and on many occasions their relatives have been denied permission to see them for various far-fetched reasons. more…
• Friday, February 06th, 2009
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| Alisher Karamatov; photo: HRSU
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06.02.09 11:49
Human Rights Watch calls for release of Uzbek activist
Uznews.net – Human Rights Watch has urged Uzbekistan to immediately release convicted human rights activist Alisher Karamatov who is facing torture in prison.
It also demanded that the authorities investigate an incident when prison officers tortured him in freezing conditions on 30 December 2008.
His wife Namuna Karamatova said that prison guards had tortured him to confess to a disciplinary violation – attending prayers.
She complained that because of tuberculosis he was transferred from the Karshi prison to the Tashkent prison’s hospital in autumn 2008 and now he spat blood. more…
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