Uzbekistan - Prison, torture for critics - Until the very end

Light a candle. Exposing the darkness.

Human rights watch (Try to be a journalist or try to be politically active under these circumstances):


“The US, EU, and other key governments know all about President Islam Karimov’s use of prison and abuse to stamp out independent journalism, human rights monitoring, and political and religious freedom,” --- “Uzbekistan’s international partners need to tell President Karimov that there will be a serious price to pay unless his government stops imprisoning and torturing peaceful activists, journalists, and religious believers.”










Human rights watch (full text, report) September 26, 2014:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/25/uzbekistan-prison-torture-critics
At least 29 of the 34 current prisoners whose cases Human Rights Watch documented have made credible allegations of torture or ill-treatment. They have been beaten with rubber truncheons or plastic bottles filled with water and tortured with electric shock, hanging by wrists and ankles, threats of rape and sexual humiliation, asphyxiation with plastic bags and gas masks, threats of physical harm to relatives, and denial of food or water. --- Azam Farmonov, a rights activist behind bars since 2006, alleges that police placed a sealed mask on his head to simulate suffocation and beat him on his legs and feet to force a false confession. He said that during pretrial custody, he had been beaten on the head with plastic bottles filled with water and that Uzbek security services officers threatened to drive nails into his toes, as well as to harm his loved ones. Following the torture he suffered, according to his wife, Farmonov said to her at his trial, “I will hold out until the very end.”




Video (4:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35m9EfE_Us




Photo: Kerstin Lindén
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them." Eph. 5:11 (ESV)