20.01.2014 кунлик архив
Letter to TeliaSonera
Dear Ms. Marie Ehrling,
Availing myself of this opportunity please let me express my sincere respect to you and your colleagues and wish all the best in 2014. I would be grateful if you find this letter as a continuation of our ongoing communication and dialogue on TeliaSonera’s activities in Uzbekistan and its possible implications on human rights situation in the country.
At the beginning I would like to present to you my several thoughts on the points you and your colleagues have raised in your latest responses to our previous requests for information as there seem to be some serious contradictions in your points.
Talib Yakubov: Uzbek authorities have so great hatred for Muslims that they send their killers after them to other countries
It became known that an amnesty was declared on 12 December 2013 in Uzbekistan on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the Uzbek Constitution.
Several civil society activists were released from prisons at the end of the 2013 and the beginning of 2014, who were imprisoned based on fabricated and trumped-up charges.
However, according to local and international human rights activists, the authorities still keep thousands of people convicted on political and religious grounds in the most brutal colonies and prisons of the country.
In his interview with Jarayon, Talib Yakubov, the honorary president of the International Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, who now resides in exile in France, speaks about the recently announced amnesty in Uzbekistan and the reasons why the government of Uzbekistan annually deprives many political prisoners of the possibility to use the right for amnesty.
