16.11.2012 кунлик архив

United Nations Human Rights Committee United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

Citizen of Uzbekistan Mr. Khairullo Tursunov is under serious threat to be extradited from the Republic of Kazakhstan back to his home country.

For more than seven months he has been detained in the city of Aktobe in Aktobe region. In addition, the General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan made a decision to satisfy a petition to extradite the Uzbek refugee Mr. Khairullo Tursunov.

Election of Kazakhstan to the UN Human Rights Council has caused a storm of criticism

Kazakhstan, a state that last year extradited 29 Uzbek refugees to the country of torture, entered the United Nations Human Rights Council.

On November 12, 2012, New York hosted a 67th session of UN General Assembly, which included elections to the UN Human Rights Council for the period of 2013-2015.