Secret Uzbek court to sentence ex-envoy to UK accused of treason
Kadyr Yusupov’s family believes his ‘confession’ that he spied for a foreign government was coerced
A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the result of repression and a broken justice system.
The trial of Kadyr Yusupov, a former top-ranking official who served in London in the early 2000s, was delayed for months while international observers and foreign journalists descended on Uzbekistan for last Sunday’s parliamentary elections.