The lawyer representing a human rights activist
Nuraddin Djumaniyazov is not given the location where he is kept. The defence
lawyer is unable to meet him, despite having an official permission to do so
since 20 April 2015.
The last time Mr Djumaniyazov was seen during
the court hearing. He asked his lawyer to help him to get hold of medication
and said that he was seriously ill. His family does not support him in any way
and Djumaniyazov was enduring alone.
In October 2014, Nuraddin Djumaniyazov was
referred to the Sangorod (Medical Department) of the prison УЯ 64/18 in
Tashkent because of serious health condition caused by the diabetes. It has not
been possible to find out any more information about his health since then.
Nuraddin Raimbergenovich
DJUMANIYAZOV was born
on 8 October 1948, in the town of Turtkul of the Karakalpakistan ASSR,
Uzbekistan. He is a citizen of Uzbekistan, divorced. He has two children.
Since 2003, he is a member of the
“Mazlum” Human Rights Centre; he is one of the founders of the Centre. In 2012
he participated in creation of Union of the Independent Trade Unions in support
of the labour migrants and was the head of the Tashkent department of the
organisation.
In January 2014, he was charged with the
offence of “Human Trafficking” under Article 135(3)(d) of the Criminal Code of
Uzbekistan as well as his colleague, a human rights activist Fakhriddin
Tillayev.
The Tashkent City Shaykhontahur District
Criminal Court sentenced Nuraddin Djumaniyazov to 8 years and 9 months,
Fakhriddin Tillayev to 10 years and 8 months of imprisonment on 6 March 2014.
At the appeal hearings against this Sentence,
it was upheld, although the defence lawyer presented the evidence that during
the investigation and the previous court hearings, the rights of Nuraddin Djumaniyazov
and Fakhriddin Tillayev were breached.
Not long ago, a charitable foundation provided
a humanitarian aid to purchase medication and provisions of food for him. That
is why the lawyer wanted to visit her client. She also wanted to get his
instructions in order to file an application seeking his release on
compassionate grounds and ill health.
Association for Human Rights in Central Asia
expresses a serious concern that the lawyer is unable to meet with Mr Djumaniyazov
or access a reliable information about him. The human rights activist Nuraddin Djumaniyazov
has been ill for a long time and is detained in conditions, which obviously
caused damage to his health, and we fear, the worst consequences.
In this regard, the Association for Human
Rights in Central Asia sent a report about the situation of the human rights
activist to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, UN Special
Rapporteur on Torture and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
We previously reported on this case in the following press releases:
- «Uzbekistan: a human
rights activist Nuraddin Djumaniyazov is admitted to a hospital» dated 14 October
2014;
- «Uzbekistan: the Supreme Court upheld the Sentence against human rights
activists Tillaev and Djumaniyazov» dated 14 October 2014;
- «Uzbekistan: a sentence against human rights activists Fakhriddin
Tillaev and Nuriddin Djumaniyazov is upheld» dated 21 April 2014;
- «Uzbekistan: Two Human Rights Defenders Imprisoned for 8 Years, 3 Months» dated 8 March 2014;
- «Uzbekistan: Fakhriddin Tillaev, a human rights activist is under threat
of long term imprisonment» dated 18 February 2014.
