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English Language Page The five persons include: • Talib Yakubov, Chairman of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, Uzbek citizen • Eliza Moussaeva, IHF Secretariat, Russian citizen • Eldar Zeynalov, Chairman of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani citizen • Dzmitry Markusheusky, Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Belarusian citizen • Abdurzai Dezhuraev, taxidriver, Uzbek citizen “We are appealing to the Uzbek authorities to allow this international team to do its work,” stated Aaron Rhodes, Executive Director of the IHF. “The success of civil society initiatives holding the government accountable holds the key to peace and stability in Uzbekistan. Many human rights defenders are held in violation of Uzbek and international law. Further repression threatens to lead to a deterioration in human security,” he said. The team had visited the family of Nurmukhammad Azizov, a member of the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan who was arrested on 2 June, in the village of Hakhigat (Shakhrikhan oblast, Andijan region). Background Some minutes before 22:00 the team left Hakhigat. Two unmarked cars were following them. Five minutes later, two police cars blocked the road and stopped them. They were ordered to follow the cars to a police station, where they were told that during the day allegedly a car accident had occurred on a nearby mountain road. The officials claimed to suspect that their car had caused the accident and took away automobile registration documents and the driver’s license, ordering the driver to follow their car with the plate number 16n3037. Another police car followed. They were told that they were being brought to the place where the accident allegedly happened, a mountain pass between Andijan and Tashkent. At about 2:00 local time, the delegation reached a check-point where the driver’s papers were returned and copies of the IHF team’s passports were made. The delegation was then released but the police told them that “they would be met” at the next check-point on the way to Tashkent. At the check-point seventy-five kilometers from Tashkent, their passports were copied again. They reached the Uzbek capital at 7:00 local time. For further information: IHF Secretariat, Vienna, +43-1-408 88 22 or +43-676-635 66 12 or +43-676-312 23 48 |
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