Uznews.net – The Zhaslyk prison administration has prevented the imprisoned dissident writer Yusuf Juma from meeting his daughter Feruza. The prison administration has again reduced his meeting from three days to one and made his daughter leave the prison.

The writer’s wife, Gulnara Oltiyeva, who is residing in the USA, said that Feruza had arrived from Bukhara at the prison in Zhaslyk, a village in the north of Karakalpakstan, on 10 August to visit his jailed father Yusuf Juma.

Before she was allowed to see her father, she had had to wait for eight days in prison rooms, which are unsuitable for living, full of lice and bugs and has no basic facilities but which are still used by the administration to host relatives of inmates. more…