Enemy of the State

The mother of the man who was boiled for our freedom (graphic photos) complained. Now, she's doing time for that crime.

A prosecutor in Uzbekistan demanded a six-year prison sentence on Wednesday for the mother of a Muslim dissident killed in jail in a case her lawyer says is an attempt by the authorities to silence her protests. Fatima Mukadyrova, a 62-year-old former grocery vendor, has spent more than a year demanding punishment for the killers of her son, who she said was murdered during torture in prison.

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Last year, Mukadyrova displayed post-mortem photographs of her son. His teeth were smashed, his fingers were stripped of nails and his body had been cut, bruised and scalded. Prison officials at the Jaslik jail in the west of the former Soviet republic said Avazov had died in a fight with other inmates who threw hot tea on him.

The judge says Mukadyrova is accused of "setting up an underground cell of women propagating Hizb ut-Tahrir ideas". Hizb ut-Tahrir aims to set up a pan-Islamic state run by religious law.