his wife khadicha has campaigned tirelessly for his release. hadicha is fighting forjustice. her husband, azimjan, has been in prison for ten years for crime he says he didn't commit. now he has one last chance of freedom. but as the court case approaches, coronavirus is spreading.

this is the story of hadicha and azimjan and their fight forjustice. kyrgyzstan, a central asian country which borders china. most of the 6 million population are kyrgyz. but there arejust under1 million uzbeks. one of them is hadicha. for ten years she has campaigned for her husband, azimjan askarov, a human rights activist who is in prison.

hadicha and azimjan have been married for over a0 years, but in 2010 he became caught up in violent clashes between kyrgyz and uzbeks.

azimjan set out to find out. while azimjan was documenting the violence, police visited hadicha.

now azimjan found himself being interrogated by the same local police he had been investigating. he says he was mistreated. shortly after his arrest, he told a localjournalist what happened.

azimjan was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a policeman and inciting ethnic hatred. he has always strongly denied the charges and says he was not given a fair trial. hadicha has spent the last ten years campaigning for azimjan�*s release. but despite international pressure and a un human rights committee calling for him to be freed, he remains in prison. hadicha and azimjan are both artists.

hadicha and azimjan have four children and ten grandchildren.

today, hadicha is making the 14—hour journey to the capital, bishkek, where the supreme court will make a final ruling on azimjan�*s case.

but right from the start, they find justice is hard to come by.

the court postpones the verdict and rules that hadicha has to pay $1600 to the family of the policeman who was killed. if she doesn't, half of her house will be confiscated. hadicha's monthly pension is $60.

every few weeks, hadicha makes the long journey to prison 19, where azimjan is being held.

but this time, they hit a problem. the coronavirus is now spreading across kyrgyzstan, which puts an end to prison visits. once a month, hadicha and azimjan talk on the phone.

with the final hearing in may. the court upholds azimjan�*s life sentence. it's the end of hadicha's hopes for justice. hadicha continues to wait and work on new parcels for azimjan.

today she's baking traditional uzbek food for azimjan. with coronavirus spreading rapidly through kyrgyzstan, amnesty international and human rights watch step up their calls for azimjan to be released on health grounds. he is 69 and considered to be at risk.

the kyrgyz government told the bbc:

azimjan was buried in uzbekistan on the muslim festival of eid al—fitr. his family believed holding the ceremony on a holy day was a good sign for his spirit.

hello. we may have said farewell to some of the high temperatures we saw just a few days ago, but the easter weekend has started with some relative warmth, and parts of highland scotland on saturday got up to 17 degrees. but you can say goodbye to that sort of temperature over the next few days because things are going to turn much colder and those parts of highland scotland that were quite warm on saturday could well be covered in snow by the time we get into monday. now, the change to colder conditions will come behind this weather front, this cold front, way up to the north on easter sunday morning, so for most it is a fine—looking day, quite a chilly start, but we'll see some spells of sunshine. but cloud will thicken into northern ireland and parts of scotland and that weather front i've showed you will start to bring outbreaks of rain across northern areas later in the day.

temperatures on easter sunday afternoon not doing too badly, up into double digits, highs of around 15 degrees towards the south and east. but as we move through sunday night and into monday we bring this weather front southwards and behind it you can see all the white on the chart. that shows that we are expecting some snow showers with the air turning markedly colder. this is a real arctic blast, a straight northerly wind all the way down from the arctic, so for monday, yes, we will see some spells of sunshine but some showers, and just about anywhere those showers could contain some sleet and some snow, even at low levels, but over high ground in northern scotland some places could see 15cm of snow. very strong and gusty winds as well. those winds coming down from the north. it is going to feel really cold out there. that's what your thermometer will read, between 2 and 9 degrees. factor in the strength of the wind, for some it will feel sub—zero. it'll feel like it's —5 at best in aberdeen on monday afternoon. as we move out of monday into tuesday we've got low pressure across scandinavia,

high pressure to the west, a strong northerly flow still bringing some of those snow showers, perhaps organising themselves into more widespread areas of sleet and snow at times, some sunny spells in—between and those temperatures will still struggle. and where it stays windiest towards the east, it's going to feel very cold indeed. now, as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, this area of high pressure is going to try to build in, especially gci’oss southern areas. the white lines, the isobars, they open out a little. the winds will be a little lighter and partly because of that, wednesday morning looks particularly cold. there'll be a few cold mornings in the coming week but quite widely we'll see a frost to start wednesday, and we are going to see cloud thickening from the west, with outbreaks of rain and hill snow pushing in across parts of scotland, maybe northern ireland as well, but temperatures, well, if you squint, they just start to show signs of nudging upwards. that's a process that continues on into thursday because the wind direction no longer northerly, it'll be more of a westerly flow, still bringing cloud and some rain,

and it will mostly be rain at this stage in northwest scotland. down towards the south we mayjust get up to 10 degrees but still below par for this time of year. now, as we head through next weekend there's quite a lot of uncertainty in the forecast but it looks as if we will see an area of low pressure tracking across the british isles, temporarily something milder mixing in with that, but as the low clears away, it's likely to leave us back in the grip of some relatively cold air, so temperatures certainly set to stay below average through this week and while next weekend may start a little milder, we'll see rain pushing through for a time and behind that it'll be colder air once again. that's all from me. goodbye.