Sitora Bozorova
Reported as a kindergarten teacher and social media user.
Imprisoned; convicted March 2024 and sentenced to 5 years 2 months; reporting states her appeal was unsuccessful and she remains incarcerated.
Article 158 part 3 (“insulting the president online”).
Article 140 (“insult”).
Article 139 (“slander/libel”).
Article 228 (“forgery of documents”).
Article 237 (“false reporting with malicious intentions”).
Convicted by Termez City Criminal Court. The “insulting the president online” charge was tied to Facebook posts from May 2022 involving edited images of the president and his daughter and a video of the images being set on fire; additional charges were reported as linked to a workplace dispute (including allegations around sick-leave documentation and related reporting).
Serving a prison sentence in Uzbekistan; the specific facility is not publicly identified in the cited sources.
No reliable public reporting describing a specific health condition.
