Accessibility links

Breaking News

Uzbek Rights Defender In Disciplinary Cell


(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, October 24, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A close relative and lawyer of Mutabar Tojiboeva says the jailed Uzbek rights campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee is being kept in solitary confinement.


Muharram Tojiboeva told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service she tried to visit her sister today at the Tashkent women's prison colony where she is serving an eight-year jail term.


She said prison officials told her that her 44-year-old sister and one of her codetainees were being kept in a disciplinary cell.


She said her sister is accused of undermining Uzbekistan's constitutional order.


An independent Uzbek website, muslimuzbekistan.net, on October 16 reported that Mutabar Tojiboeva had managed to pass a note to relatives in which she said her health was deteriorating and that she was suffering from hunger.


A rights activist from the eastern Ferghana Region, Mutabar Tojiboeva was arrested in October 2005 as she was preparing to attend an international conference in Dublin, Ireland.


In March, a court sentenced her on charges of blackmail, charges her relatives say were fabricated.

RFE/RL Central Asia Report

RFE/RL Central Asia Report


SUBSCRIBE For regular news and analysis on all five Central Asian countries by e-mail, subscribe to "RFE/RL Central Asia Report."

RFE/RL has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian government.

If you are in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine and hold a Russian passport or are a stateless person residing permanently in Russia or the Russia-controlled parts of Ukraine, please note that you could face fines or imprisonment for sharing, liking, commenting on, or saving our content, or for contacting us.

To find out more, click here.

XS
SM
MD
LG