Shahlo Rakhmonova

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Detained: November 5, 2009.

Charges: Attempting to change the constitutional order of Uzbekistan, and preparing or distributing materials threatening public security and public order.

Sentence: 6 years and 6 months in prison.

Biography: Shahlo Rakhmonova and her relatives Mehriniso Hamdamova and Zulkhumor Hamdamova, all women, were convicted in April 2010 on criminal charges of threatening the constitutional order, public security, and public order because they had conducted private religious instruction of girls. Mehriniso Hamdamova, a teacher at an officially approved women's religion course at Karshi's Kuk Gumbaz Mosque, was sentenced to seven years in a prison camp; her sister Zulkhumor Hamdamova, and their relative Shahlo Rakhmonova, each received six-and-a-half-year terms. Mehriniso and Zulkhumor were released in April 2018.

Shahlo Rakhmonova was RELEASED in 2012 under an amnesty.

Updates:

  • Shahlo Rakhmonova was released on an amnesty in 2012 (2014, Human Rights Watch).

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