Gaybullo Jalilov found in custody.

Uznews.net – Kashkadarya Region-based human rights activist Gaybullo Jalilov who has been missing since 5 September after he was attacked by police officers have been found in custody under a court ruling that sentenced him to 10 days.

The president of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, Abdujalil Boymatov, said that Jalilov was accused of resisting a representative of government when he was going home after seeing his colleague Nodir Ahatov on 5 September and was sentenced to 10 days.

His colleagues are indignant that police had kept him for two days in custody without his family members and colleagues being aware. Moreover, police denied that the activist had been held in custody.

Boymatov suggested that Jalilov could resist police officers only after they attacked him and tried to force him into their car.

The society also questioned the hastiness of sentencing Jalilov and the unawareness of his family members, colleagues and lawyers about the trial.

Boymatov explained the detention of Jalilov by a recent boost in the activity of human rights activists led by Gulshan Karayeva in Kashkadarya Region after prominent activist Yadgar Turlibekov had been exiled in the USA.

Karayeva and Ahatov are also under pressure from the local authorities which are spreading rumours that the activists are religious extremists with membership of the banned Hizb-ut Tahrir Islamic party