Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan,...

Reporting on the treatment of Muslims in Uzbekistan, the Muslim Uzbekistan web site stated that: "Tens of thousands of Uzbek Muslims have been unlawfully arrested, thousands have been tortured and dozens have been killed in extra-judicial executions. Uzbek Muslim women have been threatened with gang rape during interrogation. Muslims in prison report that they have been subjected to continuous and cruel battery, repeated anal rape and the insertion of metal bars in the anus, incarceration in basement cells in conditions intolerable for any human being, and the injecting of HIV infected blood for adhering to their Islamic prayer rituals and refusing to seek clemency from [Uzbek] President Karimov."