© Umida Akhmedova

This is just bonkers.

Uzbek photographer Umida Akhmedova is awaiting trial and is facing a potential sentence of six months in prison or three years forced labor. At issue is a 2007 work called Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk that contains approximately 100 of her photographs of life and customs in Uzbekistan. A special commission tasked by the government prosecutor has analyzed the photographs and charged Ms. Akhmedova with “defamation and insulting Uzbek traditions.”

See a gallery of ten of her images at the BBC.

More background to the case here and here.