Uzbekistan: Further information: Legal concern and new concern: fear of ill-treatment: Pulat Akhunov

Political activist and probable prisoner of conscience Pulat Akhunov is at serious risk of ill-treatment in detention. Currently serving a total of four and a half years’ imprisonment on allegedly fabricated criminal charges, he has recently been transferred to a prison camp for especially dangerous criminals. It is feared that this transfer was organized by the authorities deliberately to place Pulat Akhunov at risk of violence from his fellow inmates.

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