Reply #9: Bush the Barbarian has indicated a man who boils his political prisoners

[Judi Lynn]

isn't someone he condemns. He just doesn't have a problem with it. If you're a Republican, you apparently don't have a problem with it, either, or you'd contact your Congressfolks.

These are the same people who can't find enough time in the day to tell Democrats how morally superior they are. Whom do they think they're kidding?

Uzbekistan: Torture Death in Prison

(New York, June 3, 2003) Another Uzbek prisoner was tortured to death, contradicting U.S. claims that Uzbekistan is making progress on human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.

Otamaza Gafarov was due to be released in September from Chirchik prison in northern Uzbekistan. Instead, he died there on May 3, apparently from torture.

Human Rights Watch received information about his death shortly after the U.S. State Department issued a memorandum certifying that Uzbekistan has made “substantial and continuing progress” in respecting human rights.

“Another prisoner tortured to death in Uzbekistan is not progress—it is more of the same,” said Elizabeth Andersen, executive director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. “This is the tenth torture-related death in custody we’ve documented in the past year and a half. The State Department’s claims of human rights progress simply do not reflect reality.”
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http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/06/uzbek060303.htm