Mutabar Tadjibayeva, leader of the regional human rights organization Fiery Hearts Club, was transferred from Prison UYA-64/IZ-1 to a ward for mentally sick in Colony UYA-64/7 (the Mirabad district of Tashkent). Her lawyers were not informed of the motives behind the transfer.
“We were talking in whispers because we were under close observation,” Nurmatova said. “She said she did not know why she was transferred to a ward full of madwomen and junkies. We have to do something to get her out of there…”
Tadjibayeva’s daughter Makhliyo Akramova is upset. “My mom is bad and needs medical assistance,” she said.
Rasul Tajibayev, the brother, is not permitted to visit Tadjibayeva.
The widespread opinion is that all of that is being done deliberately to break Tadjibayeva’s spirit.
“She is a strong woman, and the authorities fear her,” one of the club members said. “She would not confess and they decided to crush her…”
Tadjibayeva, a human rights activist from Ferghana who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2005, was arrested last October on her way to an international conference in Dublin, Ireland, where she was expected to make a speech on human rights abuses in Uzbekistan and on the events in Andijan. Tadjibayeva was tried and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
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