09.05.2013 кунлик архив
To the memory of Bakhtiyar Khamraev
Dear friends, colleagues at the International Federation for Human Rights!
Today, we are writing to you on the sad occasion – Bakhtiyar Khamraev, our close friend in Uzbekistan, a courageous and tireless human rights activist, known to many of you in our common seminars and trips, died on May 4.
FIDH, like many other human rights activists, both Uzbek and international, owe so much to this wonderful and very humble man. Until his last day, even when chained to the bed by brutal and painful illness, he continued helping others – human rights activists in custody and their families, calling them, and when he could – visiting them regularly and sharing with international organizations the information, hardly available from abroad, about the conditions of imprisoned colleagues, about the legal aspects of their protection and the needs of their families – without him our help to dozens of human rights defenders and their relatives would be impossible. His integrity and honesty were the best guarantee that the aid reaches those, who really were in need.
