Tuesday, August 19, 2008

News at Eleven: In one of the rare meetings

with his relatives [Yusuf Juma or Yusuf] Djuma said he was being tortured regularly.

"He was tortured and beaten in prisons, and was told that he is not going to get out alive," [Gilnora] Oltieva's letter [to the UN Commission for human rights] states.

She also said that her husband was forced to sleep on bare cement floor, that he lives with prisoners infected with HIV and tuberculosis and he lost much weight.

from Turkish Weekly: Uzbekistan: Dissident's Wife Calls for UN Help

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