Uzbekistan: Activist From Andijan Released on Parole
15 Jun 2007 18:14:20 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
(New York, June 15, 2007) – A court in Uzbekistan's Andijan province released human rights defender Gulbahor Turaeva on parole, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 12, an appeals court commuted her six-year prison term, handed down by a lower court in April, to a six-year suspended sentence.
"We are enormously relieved that Gulbahor Turaeva is with her family and her four children again," said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "She should never have been jailed in the first place."
