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25 May 07 – New defence is being considered for defenders of civil society rights by the nearly 1,000 participants in the Civicus world assembly under way in Glasgow this week.
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Sanjay Suri/IPS, Glasgow – Members of Civicus, the Johannesburg-based international civil society alliance, and of other non-governmental organisations are debating whether to support a proposal for a new declaration on defence of the rights of civil society campaigners.
Persecution of dissenters in Uzbekistan became dramatically more intensive after the events in Andijan on May 13, 2005. The authorities began with driving foreign journalists out of the country. Once that was accomplished, they closed offices and bureaus of foreign media outlets and non-governmental organizations in Uzbekistan. Here is an outline of the persecution campaign from independent political scientist Tashpulat Yuldashev.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva, leader of the regional human rights organization Fiery Hearts Club, was transferred from Prison UYA-64/IZ-1 to a ward for mentally sick in Colony UYA-64/7 (the Mirabad district of Tashkent). Her lawyers were not informed of the motives behind the transfer.
The Board of Appeals of the Tashkent Regional Criminal Code met on May 30 and confirmed the sentence to human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva passed by the Tashkent Criminal Court on March 6, 2006.
“The struggle for peace begins with the struggle for spiritual peace and tranquility within people. This is only possible when observance of human rights and freedom for everyone is provided.”
Mutabar Tadjibayeva (born 1962) is the head of the legal defense organization and editor of Ut Yuraklar (Fiery Hearts Club) in Ferghana Valley.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan
She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.
She says: “The struggle for peace begins with the struggle for spiritual peace and tranquility within people. This is only possible when observance of human rights and freedom for everyone is provided.”
Prominent human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva from the Ferghana Valley went on a hunger-strike in jail on December 7, her lawyer Dilafruz Nurmatova told Arena (http://www.freeuz.org).
Imprisoned two months ago, Tadjibayeva wrote her fourth and “last open letter” to President Islam Karimov that same day.
