William Hague’s deportation of Malyshevs to torture in Uzbekistan

Below is a repost from Craig Murray’s excellent blog . Craig, has a very clear knowledge of the Karimov regime as he was British Ambassador there from 2002 to 2004. Uzbekistan is a state with widespread torture, kidnapping, murder, rape by the police, financial corruption, religious persecution, censorship, and other human rights abuses.

In 2002, according to Murray, Karimov’s security forces executed prisoners Muzafar Avazov and Khuzniddin Alimov by partially immersing them in boiling

water, the exposure of which led to Craig Murray losing his job.

The UK government of David Cameron and William Hague is, of course, friendly to the Karimov regime, as they pretty much see eye-to-eye on human rights issues and Uzbekistan is an important supply route to the troops in Afghanistan.

Craig has asked that the below appeal be reposted to other web sites to try and save Mikel and Nina Malyshev from torture:

Vicious and Uncaring Deportation

Further involvement of the British state in the callous ruining of lives today. Mikel and Nina Malyshev have been taken to Yarlswood Detention Centre and will be deported to probable imprisonment and torture in Uzbekistan on Friday 21 October.

The Home Office continues to insist in asylum cases that there is no human rights problem in Uzbekistan. But no serious authority outside government doubts that Uzbekistan is one of the worst human rights abusers in the world. Unfortunately the lives of Mikel and Nina Malyshev are to be sacrificed to the British government’s agreement with the Karimov regime to provide transit for supplies to the British military in Afghanistan.

It is noticeable that, since the current British government came to power, no government minister or official, nor the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, has made a single reference to Uzbekistan’s terrible human rights abuses, including over 10,000 political prisoners, absolutely no free media or assembly, banning of all opposition parties, millions of children used as forced slave labour and torture and extra-judicial killing on a massive scale.

In fact such is the British government’s enmity towards the people of Uzbekistan I am afraid that Mikel and Nina will be sacrificed without a thought. They have been living around Swansea for years as valued members of the local community. They have not claimed state benefits and have done much voluntary work. Nina’s daughter is today in labour, brought on early by her mother’s detention. The total number of Uzbek asylum seekers in the UK is in the low dozens, escaping the cruelest regime on earth. I understand and share indignation at fake asylum seekers, but we should be deeply ashamed at our vicious attitude to genuine cases like this.

Please contact your MP, William Hague and Teresa May. You may help save a life.

You may also wish to send a message to their own MP, Hywell Francis, who yesterday refused to help, saying

“Haven’t I done enough already?”

Not just cruel but lazy with it.

Hillary Clinton starts an official visit to Karimov on Sunday to mark the resumption of US arms supplies to Uzbekistan, which were suspended after the massacre of 800 pro-democracy demonstrators in Andijan in 2005.

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William Hague is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/WilliamJHague

Update – Despite the various appeals Nina and Mikel were deported to Uzbekistan on Friday 21st.