03.03.2013 кунлик архив
UN asks Kazakhstan not to extradite the Uzbek refugee
Letter sent by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” states that an individual complaint, written on the case of Khairullo Tursunov, asylum seekers from Uzbekistan, is received and during its consideration Tursunov must not be extradited to Uzbekistan.
“The UN body writes that the complaint, which we prepared on the case of Khairullo Tursunov, is accepted. The Bureau sent one copy of this complaint to Kazakh authorities.
CPJ: Kyrgyzstan should reopen case of jailed journalist
On February 27, the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, filed the appeal to the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan to reconsider publicly the case of Azimjon Askarov, human rights defender from Jalalabad, who was sentenced to life in prison in September 2010 on charges that included incitement to mass disorder, attempted kidnapping, and participation in a police officer’s murder during the ethnic unrest in the region in 2010.
Copies of the appeal were sent to the President of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, the Foreign Minister and the Minister of Justice of Kyrgyzstan, the U.S. State Department, as well as the OSCE.
Geneva police is looking for Uzbek rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva
On Sunday, March 3, Mutabar Tadjibayeva, human rights activist from Uzbekistan and head of the International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, informed “Jarayon” that she is wanted by police in Geneva, where she is participating in International Human Rights Film Festival.
According to her, the police did not give any explanations to the organizers of the film festival to the reasons why the law enforcement officers of Switzerland are searching for well-known Uzbek human rights activist.
