The Uzbekistan government is accused of jailing its nationals who practice Islam differently from what the state dictates, according to the USCIRF report
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| Screenshot USCIRF Report Highlighting Uzbekistan’s Religious and Political Prisoners |
A report
by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
released on Wednesday 13th October 2021 condemns the Uzbekistan
regime for holding over 2000 political and religious prisoners, documenting
stories of 81 individuals.
Father and two sons
were sentenced to over a dozen years in prison in a country where many convicts
suffer rampant resentencing when the inmate is about to finish their prison
term.
The story
Mukhitdin Saidovich Irgashev, 53, is a religious Muslim who worked as a physical fitness trainer and trader in both his native Bukhara and Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Irgashev is married to Zumrat Irgasheva and has three children, Sardorbek, Otabek, and Khodjiakbar born November 26, 2009.
The two older sons, Sardorbek and Otabek, are both imprisoned along with their father.
For several years before their arrest, Mukhitdin and his two older sons were under surveillance by Russian and Uzbek security services, both in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
On one occasion Mukhitdin and his son Otabek were detained while they attended a mosque in Russia in 2013.
Uzbek security services arranged for several informants to visit Mukhitdin Irgashev’s home, both in Russia and in Uzbekistan, and secretly record conversations with the Irgashev family on religious topics, including the news regarding Syria.
Officers arrested Mukhitdin, along with his son Otabek, in Bukhara Uzbekistan on April 1, 2015, charging them with administrative offenses, before charging them with extremism-related offenses.
Mukhitdin’s wife, Zumrat, reports that both her husband and son Otabek were subjected to severe torture in custody between April and September 2015, when the trial was held.
Both were tortured by security services officers who attempted to force them to sign false confessions to the crime of financing terrorism.
In September 2015, a Tashkent court sentenced Mukhitdin to 15 years, Sardorbek to 12 years, and Otabek to 11 years in imprison.
According to Zumrat, all three were subjected to torture during pre-trial detention.
The three are currently serving sentences in different prison colonies.
Sardorbek Irgashev,31, along with his brother Otabek and father, Mukhitdin, was under surveillance by Russian and Uzbek security services both in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for several years prior to arrest.
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| Screenshot USCIRF Report Highlighting Uzbekistan’s Religious and Political Prisoners |
On 9 May 2015, Yekaterinburg police officers in Russia detained Sardorbek, deporting him 11 days later to Tashkent.
In September 2015, a Tashkent court sentenced Sardorbek to 12 years, his father to 15 years, and his brother Otabek to 11 years in imprison.
According to his mother, Zumrat, all three were subjected to torture during pre-trial detention.
The three are currently serving sentences in different prison colonies.
Otabek Irgashev,27, along with his older brother Sardorbek and father, Mukhitdin, was under surveillance by Russian and Uzbek security services both in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for several years prior to arrest.
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| Screenshot USCIRF Report Highlighting Uzbekistan’s Religious and Political Prisoners |
On one occasion Mukhitdin and his son were detained while they attended a mosque in Russia in 2013.
Officers arrested Otabek and his father in Bukhara on 1st April 2015, charging them with administrative offenses before charging them with extremism-related offenses.
Otabek’s mother, Zumrat, reports that both Mukhitdin and Otabek were subjected to severe torture in custody between April and September 2015, when the trial was held.
Both were tortured by security services officers who attempted to force them to sign false confessions to the crime of financing terrorism.
In September 2015, a Tashkent court sentenced Otabek’s father, Mukhitdin, to 15 years, his brother Sardorbek to 12 years, and Otabek to 11 years in prison.
According to Otabek’s mother, Zumrat, all three were subjected to torture during pretrial detention.
The three are currently serving sentences in different prison colonies.
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