The detainee of the FSB of the Russian Federation in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is a supporter of the international terrorist organization “Islamic State” banned on the territory of the Russian Federation. Still image from video, provided by the DSP FSB. Photo: RIA News. All rights reserved.In the last six years, the number of people charged with extremism offences in Russia has risen more than three-fold. Many of them have migrated from Uzbekistan, seeking safety in Russia from poverty and political persecution.
The Russian judicial system, however, has no intention of offering them protection. On the contrary, it fabricates terrorist and religious extremism charges against them and hands them back to the Uzbek security services, in circumvention of all international agreements.
A flight from death
The story of Tatyana and Bakhodir Karimov doesn’t just illustrate the indifference of the Russian judicial system, but demonstrates the complicity between the Russian and Uzbek Special Services.
