TAKE ACTION Call on the authorities to stop the unlawful detention and ill treatment of three Uzbek women human rights defenders who are currently imprisoned; Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova.

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Simply print the letter below (or you can use it as a guide for composing your own correspondence) and send to the recipients below.

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Dear,

I am writing to express my grave concern about the continued detention of Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova. I urge you to release Mutabar Tadjibaeva Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova immediately and unconditionally, as it is clear that these sentences constitute an attempt by the Uzbek authorities to prevent these women from carrying out their activities in defence of human rights.

I call on the authorities to ensure that Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova and all human rights defenders detained in Uzbekistan are given regular access to family, lawyers, and medical attention if required while in detention. I also call on the authorities to ensure that immediate measures are taken to guarantee the security of all human rights defenders in Uzbekistan.

I remind you that the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms also recognizes the legitimacy of the activities of human rights defenders and their right to carry out their activities without fear of reprisals.

I would particularly draw attention to Article 12: ‘(1). Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. (2). The State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration’.

Your Sincerely,

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Please send your appeals to the recipients below: The President of Uzbekistan

President Karimov 700163 g. Tashkent, ul. Uzbekistanskaia, 43, Prezidentu Respubliki Uzbekistan Karimovu I.A., Uzbekistan Minister of Internal Affairs

Bahodir MATLIUBOV Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del RU, ul. Novruz, 1; Tashkent 700029; UZBEKISTAN