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Uzbekistan: Human rights activist is arrested for drug possession in Angren

20.09.2010 14:44 msk

Ferghana.Ru

On September 6 the human rights advocate Matluba Kamilova was arrested in Angren (the Tashkent Oblast of Uzbekistan) for drug possession.

The Ferghana.Ru source informed that 50-year old Kamilova has been running the human rights activities for many years, helping everyone regardless of their social status; this way she touched the interests of many influential people in Angren.

Earlier the human rights defender worked in the secondary school and later on she headed the lyceum in Dukent, where she was arrested.

The road police officers blocked the way to the lyceum. While running the search they found drugs in the purse of Matluba Kamilova.

According to unconfirmed information, immediately after the arrest she was sent to Tashkent; Matluba has been staying in the remand prison of Tashkent for about two weeks. Perhaps, the authorities put moral and physical pressure on her.

Meanwhile, the Angren community is surprised to hear such absurd news.

It has to be mentioned that Solizhon Abdurakhmanov, the human rights defender from Karakalpakstan, was accused of storage of drugs while the evidences of his guilt were presented neither during the investigation nor during the trial.

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