April-May 20, 2002: Nigmatullo Fayzullayev and Maksim...

April-May 20, 2002: Nigmatullo Fayzullayev and Maksim Strakhov were executed at the end of April and on 20 May respectively despite interventions by the UN Human Rights Committee on 16 October 2001 urging the Uzbek authorities to put the executions on hold.
Nigmatullo Fayzullayev and Maksim Strakhov were sentenced to death by Tashkent City Court on 18 April 2001 for premeditated aggravated murder.
Uzbek authorities did not inform Nigmatullo Fayzullayev's family of their son's execution. It is only when they wanted to visit him on death row in Tashkent prison at the end of April and were refused access, that they suspected he might no longer be alive. The exact date of his execution is not known.
According to Maksim Strakhov's mother, who last visited him on death row on 10 May, her son was severely beaten by law enforcement officers for more than three days following his arrest in October 2000.