Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov

Affiliated media: Newspaper El Khyzmetinde (In the Service of the People), Editor-in-chief

Incident date: January 31, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Gazeta.uz

Location: Uzbekistan, Bukhara

Additional information:

Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Khyzmetinde (In Service of the People), was sentenced to 16 years in prison on January 31 at a trial in Bukhara. The defendant must spend the first two years of his sentence in prison and the rest in a strict regime colony. He was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 159 (conspiracy to seize power or overthrow the constitutional order of the Republic of Uzbekistan), as well as four other articles — Paragraph A of Part 3 of Article 167 (embezzlement by embezzlement on a particularly large scale), Article 243 (legalization of proceeds from criminal activities), Part 3 of Article 244 (organization of mass riots) and Paragraphs A, B, and D of Article 244-1 (manufacture, storage, distribution or display of materials threatening public security). The journalist did not plead guilty in the absence of evidence.