Category Archives: Former Political Detainees

ACAT-France awards human Rights prize to Mutabar Tadjibayeva

“Engel-duTertre” awarded to the famous Uzbek human rights defender and her organization “Fiery Hearts Club” in recognition of work against torture in Uzbekistan

On November 15, ACAT-France celebrated forty years since its creation in 1974 by Edith du Tertre and Helene Engel by awarding the first ever Engel-duTertre prize to Mutabar Tadjibayeva.

Tadjibayeva, renowned activist and head of the international human rights association “Fiery Hearts Club”, has been living in exile in Paris after being jailed and tortured in Uzbekistan. For more than two decades, Tadjibayeva has continued the fight for human rights in Uzbekistan.

Photo portraits and documents of human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva displayed in New York photo exhibition

On 3 November, a photo exposition was launched in New York, which displays portraits and documents of Mutabar Tadjibayeva, a prominent Uzbek human rights defender and the head of Fiery Hearts Club International Human Rights Organization.

The photo exposition titled “Moving Walls/Watching You, Watching Me” shows works of 10 photographers, who specialize on human rights issues.

Portraits of Uzbek human rights defender Mutabar Tadjibayeva were made by Swiss photographer Marie Bastashevski, who also cooperates with funds providing Internet security consulting.

Mutabar Tadjibayeva: An Amnesty International representative could not hold back her tears when I told her my prison story

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe hold a conference on 22 September – 3 October in Polish capital Warsaw.

Within the framework of the event, a number of representatives of Uzbek civil society and international organizations conducted a protest action in front of the OSCE titled “Who is to blame?! Who is next?!” initiated by Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of “Fiery Hearts Club”International Human Rights Organizat

In her interview with “Jarayon”, the prominent human rights activist shared her impressions of the trip to Warsaw.