The Board of Appeals of the Tashkent Regional Criminal Code met on May 30 and confirmed the sentence to human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva passed by the Tashkent Criminal Court on March 6, 2006.
The head of “Fiery Hearts Club” (a human rights organization from Ferghana), Tadjibayeva drew eight years of imprisonment.
Observers, lawyers, and human rights activists claim that the case against Tadjibayeva was fabricated and politically motivated. (Tajibayeva was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2005.)
Representatives of embassies of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, OSCE mission, foreign journalists accredited in Uzbekistan, and human rights activists monitored the proceedings.
Initiative Group of Independent Uzbek Human Rights Activists.
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