AURORA, Colo.—The United States government and the United Nations helped bring to Colorado a Uzbek refugee who now faces a terrorism charge.
The Denver Post reported Tuesday () that 35-year-old Jamshid Muhtorov is a former beverage wholesaler from Jizzak, Uzbekistan, whom the US and the UN helped relocated to Aurora in 2007. He had opposed his home country’s dictator following a 2005 massacre, endured a brutal detention, and saw his sister arrested on a false murder charge.
He fled his country by night dressed as a woman.
Authorities arrested Muhtorov in Chicago Jan. 21. He’s accused of providing material support and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union. The violent group opposes the Uzbek government and has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
