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Tuesday, 12 July 2005
KAZAKHSTAN TURNS UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST OVER TO UNHCR
By empty (7/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan turned an Uzbek human rights activist, who Uzbekistan claims to be one of the instigators of the May 13 violence in the Uzbek city of Andizhan, over to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, the UNHCR said. The activist, Lutfullo Shamsudinov, was charged with terrorism and of \"spreading information with the aim of provoking panic among the population\" by Uzbekistan. He received refugee status from the UNHCR late last month.
Kazakhstan turned an Uzbek human rights activist, who Uzbekistan claims to be one of the instigators of the May 13 violence in the Uzbek city of Andizhan, over to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, the UNHCR said. The activist, Lutfullo Shamsudinov, was charged with terrorism and of \"spreading information with the aim of provoking panic among the population\" by Uzbekistan. He received refugee status from the UNHCR late last month. Shamsudinov fled to Kazakhstan, where he was arrested in Almaty on July 4 at the behest of Uzbekistan, which was demanding his extradition. Redmond said that, by handing over Shamsudinov to the UNHCR, Kazakhstan reaffirmed its loyalty to the 1951 international convention on refugees. (Interfax)