Further information on UA 254/93 (EUR 62/22/93, 4 August; and follow-up EUR 62/25/93, 18 August) - Uzbekistan: 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.