Human rights activist Abdullo Tojiboy-ugli prevented from getting married.

17.07.12 15:10

Tashkent-based well-known human rights activist Abdullo Tojiboy-ugli has been twice at a civil registry office where he is expected to get married, but he still remains single.

“The first attempt to register a marriage with a woman who I love was expected to take place at Tashkent’s Chilanzar district civil registry office on 10 July,” Tojiboy-ugli said.

He said that their marriage had not taken place because a civil registry official telephoned his bride on the day of wedding to say that it had been postponed because they “did not have forms”.

“My bride told me that a civil registry official had talked about the missing forms very unconvincingly, creating an impression

My bride told me that a civil registry official had not been convincing about the missing forms”

human rights activist and groom Tojiboy-ugli

that the official was under some pressure,” Tojiboy-ugli said.

Later, a son of the bride all of a sudden started opposing the marriage: he broke all crockery at home and made a promise to kill himself if his mother got married with Tojiboy-ugli.

At the same time, human rights activists said, Tojiboy-ugli is a very sociable, easy-going and calm person and he could hardly cause such disgust of his bride’s son.

“Until 10 July the bride’s son was very glad that his mother was getting married with me and sincerely wished us happiness,” Tojiboy-ugli said.

The activist said that such sharp change in the attitude of his bride’s son towards him after “law-enforcement agencies conducted relevant ‘work’ with the young man”.

As a result, on 13 July – a new date for the wedding, the human rights activist spread the table and invited his friends to a party in vain because the bride did not show up at the civil registry office.

But Tojiboy-ugli was invited to the Chilanzar district criminal court to attend hearings into a case initiated by his ex-wife.

“Hearings that are expected this evening were ordered following my complaint to police, but it seems to me that I would be made defendant in it,” he suggested.

His colleagues expressed their indignation at such unprecedented attacks on their friend.

“Law-enforcement agencies, by ‘pressing’ human rights activists are using relatives and neighbours increasingly more frequently and I believe this is at least unfair,” human rights activist Vladimir Husainov said.

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