Bereaved Uzbek mother gets prison

[Aidoneus]

Bereaved Uzbek mother gets prison
Thursday 12 February 2004

A woman whose son was allegedly boiled to death in an Uzbek prison has herself been jailed on charges of religious extremism and plotting against the state.

The Thursday verdict was immediately condemned as politically motivated - an attempt to silence a woman who focused world attention on terrible human rights abuses in the central Asian republic.

Mirzahaim Avazov said the verdict against his 62-year-old mother, Fatima Mukhadirova, was "unjust and slanderous".

"The law is used only to protect this country's despotic regime, not to protect the people," he said.

The former Soviet republic's secular authorities launched the case against Mukhadirova after allegedly finding leaflets published by Hizb al- Tahrir - a non-violent Islamic radical organisation that has attracted grassroots support.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9B813F38-57CC-4DF0-8147-2D3F38B04316.htm

[bluestateguy]

1. Our "friends" in Uzbekistan

Further proof that the Bush Administration cares not a whit about human rights, except as a dishonest rhetorical argument in defense of a preemptive war.

What would Christian fundamentalist supporters of this president say if the US jailed right wing Christians for "religious extremism"?

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive

Does this photo look familiar?

Rumsfeld greets President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov




Save them for the day Americans are told, with righteous indignation, that Karimov "boiled his own people."

Story:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm

[eablair3]

3. boiled to death

now that sounds awful. thanks for the posts.

[KDLarsen]

4. Yeah...

.. I'd hate to see that - though I suppose it's along the lines of being electricuted.

Say, how civilised is the US again?

[PsychoDad]

5. I think

electrocution would be a bit quicker...