Gulbahor Turayeva

Uzbekistan: Husband of human rights defender Gulbahor Turayeva assaulted in Andijan in ongoing campaign of intimidationposted on: 2009/08/04

According to the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists of Uzbekistan the husband of human rights defender Gulbahor Turayeva who was pardoned and released from prison, was violently beaten up in Andijan on 25 July. "This attack is a result of a campaign launched against Turayeva’s family" according to the group.

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The EU extends sanctions against Uzbekistanposted on: 2007/05/15

On 14 May 2007 European Union foreign ministers called for the immediate release of imprisoned human rights defenders in Uzbekistan and extended sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan after the Andijan massacre of May 2005.

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Uzbek human rights defender sentenced to six years in prisonposted on: 2007/04/29

On 25 April 2007, a court in Uzbekistan sentenced 40 year-old human rights defender, pathologist and mother of four, Gulbahor Turayeva, to six years in prison. She was charged with attempting to overthrow the constitutional system, slander and producing and distributing materials threatening public order

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Campaign for Gulbahor Turayevaposted on: 2007/04/27

Gulbahor Turayeva, pathologist and human rights activist, 44, from Andijan. On 14 January 2007 Gulbahor Turayeva was arrested while she was crossing the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border at the Dustlik post. Uzbek customs officers found press material published by the opposition Erk party in her bag. Her husband Farid Yangildin has said that Gulbahor Turayeva was carrying 123 books, some of which written by the chairman of the Erk party, Muhammad Solih.

Uzbek opposition holds protests in foreign capitalsposted on: 2007/02/08

Tuesday, 06 February 2007