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Last year, security forces in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan used lethal force to suppress unrest in their respective autonomous regions. Dozens of people were killed, and hundreds arrested. But experts say the biggest victim may prove to be what remains of civil society in both countries.
The six activists from the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region were detained in connection with protests in May 2022. Their trials were held behind closed doors without access to lawyers or the evidence against them.
Six civil society activists from the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan, detained in connection with protests in May 2022, have received lengthy prison terms after closed, unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said today.
As UN rights expert Mary Lawlor criticized “an intensifying climate of fear," Tajik courts continued to convict activists and lawyers on dubious grounds.