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Uzbekistan - Alleged torture and ill-treatment of imprisoned human rights defender

Front Line is deeply concerned by the health conditions of the imprisoned human rights defender Abdurasul Khudoynazarov who tried to commit suicide on 1 September 2008, reportedly as a result of the harsh conditions of detention he endures in the N64/1 Prison in Bekabat, Tashkent region. Abdurasul Khudoynazarov, a member of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU) “Ezgulik”, was arrested on 26 June 2005, and condemned to nine years imprisonment.  

• Abdurasul Khudoynazarov
• Alleged torture
• Front Line
• human rights
• human rights defender
• Uzbekistan

• Uzbekistan

The Uzbek government has a long-standing record of torture, controlling, intimidating, and arbitrarily suspending or interfering with the work of civil society groups, the media, human rights defenders, and opposition political parties. Ill-treatment and serious procedural violations against detainees as well as harsh treatment of human rights defenders and political opponents is widespread. In 2003, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture characterised torture as "systematic" in Uzbekistan.