Matlyuba Kamilova

Matlyuba Kamilova, also Matluba, (born 1960) is an Uzbek human rights activist and school principal. In 2016, Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., named her one of twenty women political prisoners in the FreeThe20 campaign.[1]

Kamilova spoke out about police corruption. In September 2010, she was arrested and charged with possession of drugs. She is still in prison.[2]

  1. ^ ""Until the Very End" - Politically Motivated Imprisonment in Uzbekistan". Human Rights Watch. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2016-12-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)