Shuchrat
was sentenced to death by the regional court of Tashkent on February
9th 2004. He had already spent some years in prison in the past.
He came back home, restored at
work, married and he had two babies, too. One day his brother had an
heart attack in his house. Shuchrat, strongly frightened, ran off to
his neighbours asking for help, but they began to mocking him,
instead of giving some aid, maybe due to a religious prejudice
against him, who is Muslim.
So they started fighting one
another. Everybody was wounded and then drove to the hospital by the
first aid. Furthermore, Shuchrat was arrested, without knowing what
was happened to his neighbours.
Then, according to his relatives,
he was forced to confess under torture an alleged murder. Now he is
dramatically in danger of being executed at any moment.
The appeal to save Shuchrat
The Community of Sant’Egidio invites everybody to share its appeal
aiming to spare Shuchrat’s life from the execution, sending the
following statement to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
by fax or e-mail.
Urgent
appeal brought out by the Community of Sant’Egidio to save the life of
Shuchrat Khursanovic Aripov, sentenced to death
Your Excellency
I am writing to express my deep
concern over a ruling that sentenced to death Mr. Suchrat Khursanovic Aripov,
even though his confession was allegedly achieved under torture.
I urge you to intervene on his behalf
to prevent this cruel and inhuman punishment from being meted out against
him.
I implore you to ensure that this
cruel and inhuman sentence is not carried out.
the Community of Sant'Egidio
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