Russian court halts journalist’s deportation to Uzbekistan
MOSCOW — A Moscow court has stopped the deportation of a Russian reporter to his native Uzbekistan, bowing to a European court’s order.
The European Court of Human Rights has obliged Russia to halt Khudoberdy Nurmatov’s deportation amid rights activists’ fear he might face torture in Uzbekistan.
On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court suspended an earlier ruling to deport Nurmatov in accordance with the Strasbourg court’s verdict.
The court ordered Nurmatov, who was born in Russia but grew up in Uzbekistan, to stay in a detention facility for foreigners pending the European court’s hearings.