Thursday, January 16, 2020

UZBEKISTAN: Human Rights Defender Freed - GOOD NEWS

Amnesty International, January 15, 2020.

Uzbekistani blogger and human rights defender Nafosat Olloshkurova was released from a psychiatric institution on 28 December. 

She was violently detained by police on 23 September 2019 while monitoring and reporting about a peaceful protest. On 26 September she was placed in a psychiatric institution and subjected to medical treatment without her consent. 

Nafosat Olloshkurova should have never been deprived of her freedom in retaliation for her legitimate human rights work.