Uzbek poet was arrested and tortured following the confiscation of his poems. Yusuf Dzhumaev, a father of six children, was arrested at his home on October 23, 2001, by officers of the National Security Service (SNB).
In 1998, Mahuba Kasymova was sentenced to five years in prison, but because of the efforts of human activists around the world who adopted her as an Amnesty International Political Prisoner, she was released after serving 18 months of her sentence.
