Uzbekistan: 7 Prisoners Of Conscience Jailed For Between 11 And 4 Years

By Mushfig Bayram

Seven Muslim men who met in the capital Tashkent to discuss Islam were in January 2021 transferred to various prisons to begin jail terms of between 11 and four years. Tashkent City Criminal Court convicted the men - aged between 24 and 34 - on wide-ranging "terrorism" and "extremism"-related charges, which...