Only the Devil Lives Without Hope: A sister’s fight for justice
An Uzbek woman holds on to hope in her fight to free her brother, who is jailed in a notorious desert prison.
Dilya became a human rights defender the day her brother Iskandar was thrown into an Uzbek prison, accused of being a “terrorist”.
For years she challenged the Karimov regime, and the consequences were brutal. She escaped Uzbekistan only to realise that the regime that took her brother was closer than she could ever imagine.
Only the Devil Lives Without Hope is a real-life thriller about love, betrayal, spies, assassins, and one woman’s determination to hold on to hope for her brother, locked in a notorious Uzbek desert prison nicknamed “The place of no return”.
Published On 25 Mar 2021