Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their...

Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their third child when her husband, Dovud, was sentenced to death in May 2001. He was accused of attempting to assassinate the Mayor of the Tajikistan capital, Dushanbe. His appeal was rejected in November 2001.
The UN Human Rights Committee asked the Tajik authorities for a six-month stay of execution, while it investigated Dovut Nazriev's case. But when his wife went to the prison on 25 June, she was told that Dovud and his brother Sherali had been transferred to a prison in Qurgontoppa, south of Dushanbe. Six weeks later, she learned that he had been executed on 21 June.
Both brothers said they had been tortured by investigators from the Interior Ministry's Sixth Directorate.