Mutabar Tadjibaeva founded the Fiery Hearts Club in Uzbekistan to work for women’s rights. She was arrested on her way to Dublin for the Front Line, Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders in 2005 and sentenced to 8 years in prison.

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Mutabar has been denied medical care and access to her family and lawyers. She has been held in the psychiatric wing of the prison, at times in solitary confinement.

When all our efforts to lobby for her release had failed, we finally decided to try sending a bouquet of flowers to the prison We never thought they would get through. We intended it as a symbolic gesture of support which would show that we had not forgotten her. A letter smuggled from prison told us that incredibly the prison governor gave her the flowers and now she is being treated with more respect.Unfortunately since then her conditions have again deteriorated.

With your help Front Line will continue to campaign for the release of Mutabar Tadjibaeva.

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