On 21 July 2014 Shukhrat Kudratov was arrested in his office in Tajikistan and charged with attempted bribery of a judge. On 13 January 2015 he was sentenced to nine years for bribery and fraud. This lawyer might have been targeted for his human rights work. The Law Society of Upper Canada urges the Republic of Tajikistan to consider Articles 16 and 23 of the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers.