Tajikstan:Imminent execution/unfair trial/torture/ill-treatment

Index Number: EUR 60/004/2001
Date Published: 16 July 2001
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Tajikistan

Dovud Nazriev and his elder brother Sherali, who were sentenced to death in May 2001, could be executed at any time unless the president grants clemency. They were convicted for attempting to assassinate the mayor of Dushanbe, but there are reports that they are innocent, sentenced after an unfair trial, and that they were ill-treated in custody.