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Writer and poet, Mamadali Makhmudov, has been imprisoned and tortured in American sponsored Uzbekistan since 1999. Smuggled letters, and sources, have told of people beaten to death with hammers, people being boiled alive, and children having their faces ripped off. The country is of strategic importance to the U.S. government, which as usual, is happy to support this and a litany of crimes against humanity included the massacre last May of up to 1000 street demonstrators. Writing to them is unlikely to help, as it is additionally thought to be one of the rendition/torture camp countries used by the U.S. - supported by the use of Irish airports. The wider European Union is also complicit. It is a major importer of Uzbekistan cotton (Uzbekistan is the second largest exporter of cotton in the world). Trade sanctions, against Uzbekistan and its psychotic leader Islam Karimov might increase pressure on him to stop his human rights abuses. Read some ideas about how this might be done here.