Mutabar Tadjibayeva – 2008
“They mutilated my body,” said Tadjibayeva “but they have not broken my spirit.”
On 7 October 2005, Mutabar Tadjibayeva was arrested on her way to Tashkent airport, to catch a connecting flight to Dublin, Ireland, where she was due to attend an international conference on human rights defenders. She was taken to Tashkent prison and would spend the next several months in solitary confinement.
On 6 March 2006, Tadjibayeva was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on 17 different charges including “slander” and “membership of an illegal organisation”.
“Engel-duTertre” awarded to the famous Uzbek human rights defender and her organization “Fiery Hearts Club” in recognition of work against torture in Uzbekistan
On November 15, ACAT-France celebrated forty years since its creation in 1974 by Edith du Tertre and Helene Engel by awarding the first ever Engel-duTertre prize to Mutabar Tadjibayeva.
Tadjibayeva, renowned activist and head of the international human rights association “Fiery Hearts Club”, has been living in exile in Paris after being jailed and tortured in Uzbekistan. For more than two decades, Tadjibayeva has continued the fight for human rights in Uzbekistan.
France-based ACAT human rights organization awarded Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of “Fiery Hearts Club” International Human Rights Organization, with the prestigious Engel-Tertre award.
ACAT informed Tadjibayeva about this on Wednesday, 15 October.
“We congratulate you for your courage and determination, please accept my best wishes,” – Francois Walter, the chairman of the ACAT Foundation, wrote in the letter addressed to the human rights activist.
The award ceremony will be held on 15 November 2014 within the framework of the event in the Paris Catholic Institute. The prize includes a cash award.
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