Abbas Asad (Abbas Nasretdinov)

Affiliated media: Facebook, Blogger

Incident date: February 20, 2017

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison
• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: AsiaTerra

Location: Uzbekistan, Namangan

Additional information:

An administrative case was opened under articles 40 (libel) and 41 (insult) of the Code of Administrative Responsibility of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The court ordered a pre-trial investigation. At the second session of the city administrative court held on February 23rd in Namangan on the question of "insults" and "slander" of unknown victims, Judge Huseynov actually took the side of constitutional human rights and the law for the first time in the practice of Uzbek legal proceedings.