Fleeing torture, returned to torture: Uzbekistan to Russia, and back again

In June 2014, Mirsobir Khamidkariev, a young film producer from Uzbekistan, was abducted in broad daylight in the centre of Moscow city centre. He was sitting in a taxi, waiting outside a pharmacy for his wife and young son, when two men suddenly got into the taxi and forced the driver to speed away. Two days later he was flown back to Uzbekistan – the country he had fled in order to seek asylum – and tortured. To this day Mirsobir remains in jail. Mirsobir’s Russian lawyer, Illarion Vasiliev, tells his story.

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