Gulnara Karimova: Uzbekistan ex-leader's daughter jailed

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image copyrightIman KarimovaImage caption Gulnara Karimova's daughter says this image shows her mother being removed
from her flat The daughter of Uzbekistan's late president Islam Karimov has been sent to prison for allegedly violating
the terms of her five-year house arrest.Gulnara Karimova repeatedly used the internet and left her flat, which she was banned from doing,
prosecutors say.In 2017 Ms Karimova was sentenced to 10 years in jail for fraud and money laundering but that was commuted last year to
house arrest.She was once a diplomat and pop singer who was tipped to succeed her father
Ms Karimova lived at her daughter's flat in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent
taken to an unknown location."We, her defence counsels, denounce these totally arbitrary methods," said Mr Mangeat
"For several months now, we have been unsuccessfully asking the Office of the Attorney General in Switzerland to commit an expert to
establish the absence of the rule of law in Uzbekistan."Images posted on Instagram Stories by Ms Karimova's daughter Iman showed a woman
in a short blue robe and pink slippers being dragged out of an apartment by two men
Mr Mangeat also posted the picture online, saying she had been taken to an unknown place.On Tuesday, a Tashkent court ruled that Ms Karimova
must serve the remainder of her term in prison, prosecutors said in a statement.They allege that she used forbidden communications methods,
including the internet; left the flat; and failed to pay the state compensation.Ms Karimova was once a prominent figure in Uzbek politics
who held the posts of ambassador to Spain and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, and was tipped to succeed her
father, Islam Karimov, as president.She also had her own jewellery line, ran an entertainment television channel and released pop singles
under the name Googoosha.Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Gulnara Karimova had her own jewellery line and
released pop singles But she reportedly fell out with her father and family in 2014 and shortly after she was detained by
security forces
She was not seen in public for years and when her father, an authoritarian leader who ran Uzbekistan for 27 years, died in September 2016,
12 countries, including the UK, Russia and United Arab Emirates.Then-prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev took over as president after the
death of Islam Karimov in 2016.Read more