On March 13, Mutabar Tadjibayeva, head of the International human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, will take part in the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. In addition, during her visit the prominent human rights activist is going to meet with representatives of the Geneva police.

The human rights activist also plans to participate in the roundtable entitled “Eurasia: silence of human rights activists from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan”, which is part of the Council’s session. The event is organized by the international NGO CIVICUS, founded as a world alliance for citizen participation.

It should be noted that the international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” has become a member of CIVICUS in 2011.

During the event Mutabar Tadjibayeva will speak about the situation of political prisoners, human rights activists and journalists in Uzbekistan. In addition, she will talk about the case of 29 Uzbek refugees, who were extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011, and the recent case of Khairulla Tursunov, asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, who is detained for extradition by Kazakh authorities.

According to Mutabar Tadjibayeva, who talked to “Jarayon” before the trip to Geneva, she is planning to meet with Gene police representatives on March 12, at 16:00 pm local time “for talks”.

Here is the reason why Mutabar Tadjibayeva is going to meet with law enforcement of Switzerland. Earlier in March this year, Ms. Tadjibayeva, head of the International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, based in France, went to Geneva to participate in the ten-day International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH).

During her trip to Switzerland, Ms. Tadjibayeva and several of her colleagues took a chance, and visited the city of Colonia, where the house of Gulnara Karimova is located. They wanted to see the house of the eldest daughter of president Islam Karimov, and talk with the hostess about the situation in Uzbekistan and the problems associated with human rights violations in the country. They saw the house, but failed to meet with Gulnara Karimova.

Shortly after their visit to Colonia, Mission of Uzbekistan to the UN Geneva office, headed by Gulnara Karimova, has filed a complaint to local police claiming that Mutabar Tadjibayeva, head of the International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, allegedly tried to illegally enter the house, violated the personal space and property of persons with diplomatic status.

On March 3, the Geneva police started searching for Mutabar Tadjibayeva. In a telephone conversation with her, the police representatives did not want to explain the reasons for which they were looking for the Uzbek human rights activist. However, Ms. Tajibaeva did not meet with police, and on the same day managed to travel safely from Geneva to Paris, where she now lives in emigration.

Immediately after her arrival in Paris, Mutabar Tadjibayeva hired a lawyer to represent her interest and to communicate with the police in Geneva.

Many members of the opposition and human rights groups have criticized the actions of the Geneva police. According to them, no political opposition should be persecuted by the Swiss authorities in a democratic country.

Meanwhile, a few days ago Gulnara Karimova was interviewed by the Swiss magazine “Bilan”. The full transcript of interview was also published in a personal blog of president’s daughter. During the interview Gulnara Karimov mentioned the visit Mutabar Tadjibayeva and several other rights activists to her home in Colonia, Switzerland. However, Ms. Karimova calls this visit “the invasion”.

“For example, yesterday in Geneva, on the first day of spring, we had another “support team” visiting us, those who are always ready to work off their payments while not having anything else to do, any other interests, hobbies or a properly paid job. A group of a few people including a cameraman, a lady of Uzbek origin Mutabar Tadjibayeva, who introduces herself as a president of the «Club des Coeurs Ardents» and guess who else? Exactly!

Craig Murray – ex-ambassador to Uzbekistan, who had been scandalously fired from the British Foreign Office. He lived in Tashkent for a long time and had a relationship and even got married to a strip-bar dancer, he lobbied so-called businessmen including those from Pakistan willing to get cotton and other state contracts, those people had contacts with different Uzbek clan representatives including Bekzod Akhmedov. Akhmedov was seen many times in Craig Murray and his pseudo businessmen’s company in dens of iniquity of the capital, Bekzod Akhmedov’s favorite venues.

It seems like the group of people that visited us in Geneva wanted to congratulate us with spring and express their grievance by screaming and as they said they wanted me or my sister Lola to come out. They attempted to sneak inside and walk around the house recording it all on video and we had nothing to do, but call the police and make our own video of this March invasion of “human right defenders” as they call themselves,” said Gulnara Karimova.

Nonetheless, Mutabar Tadjibayeva believes otherwise. Earlier in the interview with “Jarayon”, Ms. Tadjibayeva, referring to her visit to the house of Gulnara Karimova, said following: “I wanted to see where the money of the Uzbek people, looted by the Uzbek regime, is going to.”

On March 12, Mutarbar Tadjibayeva will meet with the police. She will be accompanied by Marina Lebedeva, representative of the student movement of “Fiery Hearts Club”, Igor Vorontsov, former expert at the Human Rights Watch, and lawyer Amélie Piguet.

During a meeting with representatives of the Geneva police, the human rights activist intends to ask the guardians of law and order following questions:

“First, I want to ask them to give me a copy of the complaint written against me.

Second, I will ask them about who signed the complaint – Gulnara Karimova herself, or someone else? If the complaint was written on behalf of another person, then I wonder if they had a right to complain on behalf of a diplomat. If they had such a right, then how the complaint was submitted?”- said Mutabar Tadjibayeva to “Jarayon”.