Saidnuriddin Shamsiddinov

Saidnuriddin Shamsiddinov is a lawyer from Tajikistan. In 2020, Shamsiddinov criticized several prosecutors and judges from the Vakhsh District for allegedly participating in illegal activities. He was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison on many charges at the end of 2020. and the group denied any connection.

Career

Until 2017, Shamsiddinov was employed as a bailiff, working in the Khatlon Region. The trial evidence also included a confession that Shamsiddinov gave after having undergone torture. They also included him in a report on Tajikistan for Civicus. The nonprofit group Freedom Now and the law firm Proskauer Rose filed a petition on Shamsiddinov's case for the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.