Tamara Chikunova
Tamara Ivanovna Chikunova, nee Petrova, Тамара Ивановна Чикунова (1948 – 31 March 2021) was an Uzbek human rights defender, campaigner against the death penalty and torture, and the founder of "Mothers Against Death Sentence and Torture."[1]
Born in Tashkent, Chikunova began her campaigning after her son Dmitry was arrested in 1999 and executed in July 2000[2] and she worked against the death penalty, which Uzbekistan abolished in 2008. She won the Colombe d'Oro and the 2005 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award.[3]
Finally the state of Uzbekistan adopted United Nations civil rights pact and abolished the death penalty.[4]
Chikunova later moved to Italy, from where she campaigned across Europe, particularly against the continuing use of the death penalty in Belarus, the only European state that still conducts executions.
She died on 31 March 2021[5] in the Italian town of Novara, where she lived in a Sant'Egidio community.[6]
References
- ^ 30 november 2013. "Fergana News". Enews.fergananews.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Belarus and Uzbekistan: The last executioners". Scoop.co.nz. 2004-10-05. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ Stadt Nürnberg/ Online-Büro. "Nuremberg International Human Rights Award Profile for Tamara Chikunova". Nuernberg.de. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Tamara Chikunova - Human Rights Office of the City of Nuremberg". www.nuernberg.de. Retrieved Apr 5, 2021.
- ^ [1] Fergana.agency report of 1 April 2021 on Chikunova's death]
- ^ "Dolore per la morte di Tamara Chikunova, cara amica di Sant'Egidio, una madre contro la pena di morte | NEWS | COMUNITÀ DI SANT'EGIDIO". www.santegidio.org. Retrieved Apr 5, 2021.