Ruslan Sharipov
Ruslan Sharipov (* 1978 ; Cyrillic Руслан Шарипов) is an Uzbek journalist and human rights activist.
Sharipov began to write critically about the Uzbek regime after receiving a scholarship in the USA . In 2003 the chairman of the unregistered human rights organization Citizens' Assistance in Uzbekistan was arrested. He is charged with "besakalbazlyk" (homosexual contact, which is defined as the "mutual satisfaction of sexual needs between two men"), tortured and sentenced to five and a half years in prison. In June 2004 he was released from custody and was able to escape via Russia to the USA, where he obtained political asylum.
Sharipov was awarded the 2004 Golden Pen of Freedom . On November 30, 2006, he wrote an open letter to the 43rd President of the United States , George W. Bush . First of all, he criticized the requirements that are required in an approval process for the United States Permanent Resident Card (Green Card). In the letter, he threatened to leave the United States if the United States Department of Homeland Security did not deal with his case in the near future. In November 2009, the broadcaster Radio Free Europe reported that Sharipov had sent an open letter to the President of Uzbekistan , Islom Karimov . In the letter he is said to have asked Karimov to allow him to return to Uzbekistan. One of the reasons he cited was that he had not been issued a green card and that he had been threatened and attacked by the police.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ruslan Sharipov: Desperate Uzbek journalist appeals to the US president. Fergananews, November 30, 2006, accessed March 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Farangis Najibullah: Send Me Back To Uzbekistan. Radio Free Europe, November 25, 2009, accessed March 25, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharipov, Ruslan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek journalist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |