Umida Akhmedova is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. She was found guilty of slandering and insulting the Uzbek people for taking a picture of a boy lying down in an unfinished house. To me that is overreacting a little bit. I mean sure she was taking a picture that could send a wrong message about their country, but she was just being creative and spontaneous.
“I can’t say my anxiety has subsided, I can’t say I’m suddenly O.K.,” she said. “There was a fear of going to prison. But to tell you the truth, I feel insulted, that’s the main thing. I still don’t understand how my creative work could have brought me to this courtroom.” She does not even know how she got to be in this situation. She doesn’t know what she did wrong. Punishing somebody for something they didn’t intend to do is just sick and wrong.
Regardless, the photo that Akhmedova took was one that she thought was inspirational, turned out to be something that offended her country. Art should be something that you can have control in. Art is something that shows your interests and creativity. I don’t think that she should be sent to prison for being creative.
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