campaign success - rights defender Elena Urlaeva released!
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- Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:45
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International campaign wins release for Uzbekistan rights defender Elena Urlaeva
Elena Urlaeva was released on March 24 after 23 days of forced psychiatric 'treatment', a success for the international campaign on her behalf.Urlaeva, who has a long history of arrest and abuse at the hands of the government, was detained by police on March 1 to prevent a scheduled meeting with representatives of the International Trade Union Confederation and the World Bank, at which she planned to discuss the problem of human trafficking in Uzbekistan. Thousands of people around the world rallied to her defense, sending messages to the authorities demanding her release. E-mail: r34 r35 r18