Muslim Journalist faces 20 years jail in Uzbekistan

UZBEKISTAN: Journalist held on charges of "anti-constitutional activity"

Tashkent : An Uzbek reporter for the state-run weekly newspaper Hurriyat (Liberty) has been criminally charged with "undermining the constitutional order" and faces up to 20 years in prison,

Sobirdjon Yakubov, 22, a Muslim, was detained in the capital, Tashkent, on April 11 on suspicions of religious extremism. He was charged three days later, Alisher Sharafutdinov, deputy minister of the interior, announced at a press conference in the capital. The formal charge is based on Yakubov's alleged religious activities. The government did not describe those purported actions in detail, but local reports cited Yakubov's alleged participation in an illegal organization.

But then Jack Straw approves of using information from tortured people, even if his employees don’t - it might be worth asking him how long it will be before we start treating people in the UK as they do in our "ally" in the "War on Terrorism".

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Alisher Sharafutdinov, Deputy Interior Ministry of Uzbekistan.

This is what “democracy means in Uzbekistan where people (especially Muslims) are routinely tortured and where the US has a huge military base to export “Democracy” to Afghanistan, Iraq etc., etc., ….oh and Microsoft opened their first office last week.