(Paris, December 6, 2012) – The Uzbek government should unconditionally release all of its political prisoners on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the country’s constitution on December 8,…
In the evening on Sunday, December 2, slain journalist Alisher Saipov’s three brothers were attacked by a group of men in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan. Shohruh Saipov, journalist and one…
Kazakhstan authorities sent a special envoy to Uzbekistan, who visited 29 imprisoned refugees extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011. Meeting in Tashkent prison The international human rights organization “Fiery…
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Catherine Ashton, is expected to visit Uzbekistan on November 26-30 as a part of her work mission to…
Population of Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan has been waiting for cold weather, but it came unexpectedly. Warm days with rain were abruptly changed to frosty weather. Cases of cold-related…
Recently, media reported a shocking story about Armenian landowner, who had used slave labor of almost hundred people from Uzbekistan. While thousands of Armenians are leaving their homeland because of…
On October 12, number of Swedish and Russian media, as well as online publications focusing on Uzbekistan, reported that the Russian law enforcement agencies arrested Yuri Zhukovsky, a suspect and…
Dear ladies and gentlemen, Citizen of Uzbekistan Mr. Khairullo Tursunov is under serious threat to be extradited from the Republic of Kazakhstan back to his home country. For more than…
Kazakhstan, a state that last year extradited 29 Uzbek refugees to the country of torture, entered the United Nations Human Rights Council. On November 12, 2012, New York hosted a…
By Muzaffar Suleymanov/CPJ Europe and Central Asia Research Associate Lawyers for imprisoned investigative reporter Azimjon Askarov, who is serving a life termin Kyrgyzstan on charges widely seen as politically motivated,…
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