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Why do people turn to human rights defenders? Because they can at least do something,
even though they have no official powers or authority.
This is my correspondence with the prosecutor in Karshi about stolen money,
and the successful outcome.
These are my documents on prisoners.
This is correspondence with the interior ministry and prison service.
Since Tatyana is unable to speak, I’m helping her by writing letters.
She sent 150,000 soms to her husband in prison, and it went missing.
I had to rouse the prosecutor in Karshi into action,
as well as the post office here in Tashkent and in Karshi.
It turned out the postmaster had stolen it. He’s been sacked now.
I became aware of the problems facing convicts when my own son went to prison.
I developed this information pack about meetings, letters
– everything you need to know.
People in prison don’t have the right to open their mouths,
but there’s a lot that relatives can do.
I haven’t kept count, but I have helped more than a hundred people.