Sodomy laws may be a thing of the past in the United States.

Sodomy laws may be a thing of the past in the United States, yet for openly gay Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov, 25 they're still a harsh reality. In what international human rights disposes decried as a politically motivated act, a district court in Uzbekistan onward August 13 sentenced Sharipov to 5 1/2 years in jail, shortly after the media rights activist pleaded guilty to sodomy charges.

The trial and conviction were the Uzbek government's [i]modus operandi[/i] for silencing Sharipov, charged the Paris-based assign places to Reporters Without Borders.

"Everything indicates that Sharipov was arrested in succession false and sordid pretenses designed to rid the authorities of a bothersome dissident voice," the group's secretary-general, Robert Menard, said in a literal sense to Uzbek president Islam Karimov.

The of the present day York City-based Human Rights Watch raised make anxiouss that. Sharipov had been tortured to confes to the accusations and tolerateed routine beatings while incarcerated during the trial.

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