IV. Right to Liberty and Freedom of Movement of Human Rights Defenders The free exercise of the right to liberty and freedom of movement was compromised on a number of occasions. As regards human rights defenders, this included unjustified prison sentences, administrative detention, detention in psychiatric institutions, bans on travelling abroad, extradition, detention without access to a lawyer, and detention of journalists for publishing classified reports in the public interest. The following sets out key circumstances and challenges affecting defenders. 1. Unjustified prison sentences. On occasion, prison sentences were passed on human rights defenders following trials that gave rise to concerns as to whether international fair-trial standards had been met. In one case, a defender who was carrying books on human rights and books by members of the opposition was arrested at the border, convicted, and sentenced to six years in prison − later reduced to a three-year suspended sentence − for “attempting to overthrow the constitutional system”, “slander”, and “producing and spreading materials threatening public order”.98 Another human rights defender was sentenced to two years in a prison colony for harming the dignity and honour of the president and insulting and threatening a judge on the basis of a letter she had written but that she never sent. The letter argued that the president should undergo a psychiatric examination and called for a boycott of the presidential elections.99 Another human rights defender was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence and four years’ probation for publishing calls for peace by 98 Case of Gulbahor Turayeva (Uzbekistan), FIDH/OMCT, contribution to the 2007 SHDM on the “Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”, Vienna, 12-13 July 2007, p. 4; IHF, “Human Rights Defenders at Risk”, contribution to the OSCE SHDM on the “Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”, p. 5; cf. the case of Umida Niyazova (Uzbekistan), idem. 99 Case of Katsiaryna Sadouskaya (Belarus), “Human Rights in the OSCE Region”, op. cit., note 62, p, 255. 25