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Author · Uzbekistan

Mamadali Mahmudov

Died in 2020

Mamadali Mahmudov, who signed himself Evril Turon, was born on 12 December 1940 in the village of Bogʻdon, in the Jizzakh region. In 1966 he entered the journalism department of Tashkent University and worked for a magazine during his studies. A member of the Writers' Union, he was arrested in February 1999, after the Tashkent bombings, and sentenced in August to fourteen years in prison; he has said that he was tortured there. Released on 19 April 2013 and reinstated among his fellow writers in November 2018, he died in Tashkent on 16 October 2020.

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