September 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

Finally arriving after 6 years – Mutabar Tadjibaeva

Mutabar finally arrives

On 14 September Mutabar Tadjibaeva from Uzbekistan will finally arrive in Dublin after a journey that started 6 years ago. A tireless critic of the Karimov regime Mutabar was arrested on her to Ireland for the 2005 Dublin Platform. She was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and was held in psychiatric hospital – forcibly medicated drugs and denied access to family and her lawyers.

At one point the guards left a noose in her prison cell to encourage her to end her life. When all other campaigns had failed to secure her release Front Line Defenders sent a bouquet of flowers to the prison for her birthday to remind her that she had not been forgotten. Miraculously the flowers were delivered and given pride of place in the prison common room where they became a beacon of hope for all the prisoners. Now a refugee in France, Mutabar finally received flowers in person from Front Line Defenders, Executive Director mary Lawlor at the formal opening of the Dublin Platform.

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