Category Archives: Human Rights
Uzbek refugee missing in Bishkek sentenced to 8 years in prison in Uzbekistan
“Jarayon” received information that an Uzbek refugee Shuhrat Musin, who went missing Bishkek, capital city of Kyrgyzstan in February 2013, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Andijan city, Uzbekistan.
According to Shuhrat Musin’s wife, Barno, who talked to “Jarayon” in a telephone conversation on December 17, her husband, who went missing in February of this year in the center of Bishkek, was taken to trial during the last week of November in Andijan.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: I demand public apologies and denials from Hürriyet Daily News!
To Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists Ms. Elisabeth Costa, Editor-in-chief of Hürriyet Daily News newspaper Mr.Murat Yetkin.
The primary task of the journalist is to ensure citizen’s right to accurate and objective information through truthful coverage of events, when facts are reported in proper context indicating correlation of various phenomena without distortions, being creatively processed by the journalist. In such a case, the public has a possibility to form a true picture of real developments through access to accurate information, in which roots and nature of events, development process and current state of facts are objectively reflected. (Objective coverage is the journalist’s duty – International Principles of Professional Ethics in Journalism).
UN Anti-Torture Experts Rebuke Uzbekistan for Its Abysmal Record
FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights – Press release
Paris, 13 December 2013 – In an unusually scathing report that is in line with FIDH’s own findings, the United Nations’ main anti-torture body expressed its utmost concerns over the widespread and systematic use of torture in Uzbekistan. The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) called for prompt, impartial and effective investigations into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: Gulnara Karimova must answer for slander
“Slander is a more cruel weapon than a sword, as the wounds which the former gives are always incurable,” once said Henry Fielding, a great English philosopher and novelist. How much psychological and physical suffering can slander give a person? And what if a certain slander has been published in a newspaper, which has thousands of readers?
Asli Baris, a journalist from high-circulation Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, known for her fashion stories, wrote in the story titled “My Life like The Magnificent Century”, “First Daughter of Uzbekistan Gulnara Karimova strikes back at recent claims” that during negotiations with the Uzbek president’s daughter, she got a letter into her email account from a secret encrypted and email, in which Gulnara Karimova wrote to her: “I’ll give you an interview, but you will write only what I say … And you should publish this interview without a delay as even we do not know what will happen soon.”
The secretary-general UN – Message on human rights Day
Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly of the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This year’s observance also marks 20 years since a bold step forward in the struggle to make rights a reality for all: the adoption by the World Conference on Human Rights of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. Drawing on the participation of more than 800 non-governmental organizations, national institutions, treaty bodies and academics, Member States adopted a far-reaching vision and created the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – thereby realizing one of the international community’s long-held dreams.
Uzbekistan: Free Political Prisoners, End Torture
UN Body Condemns Imprisonment and Alleged Torture of Rights Defenders.
(Berlin, December 7, 2013) – The Uzbek government should release all prisoners held on politically motivated charges and commit to ending torture on December 8, 2013, to mark the 21st anniversary of the constitution, Human Rights Watch said today. Such steps would demonstrate a genuine commitment toUzbekistan’smuch-touted reform process.
Mohira Ortiqova: Is Great Britain accomplice of Uzbek dictatorship?
To the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
I am Mokhira Ortikova, Kayum Ortikov’ wife. He is a former employee of the British Embassy in Tashkent and a former prisoner, who has served a sentence in a merciless Uzbek prison. We have four children. We were forced to leave our homeland in 2012 following harassment of the Uzbek authorities.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: What TeliaSonera leadership say does not coincide with what they do
The International Forum entitled Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on Freedom of Expression and Privacy was jointly organized by the Global Network Initiative and Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on 13 November 2013 in Brussels.
The Forum was attended by representatives of several reputable companies and international human rights organizations that tried to find answers to topical questions related to freedom of speech and the right to privacy.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, participated at the given forum following the official invitation of the Global Network Initiative and Telecommunication Dialogue.
The Secretary-general – Message on the international day of persons with disabilities
“Break Barriers, Open Doors: For An Inclusive Society For All”.
More than 1 billion of us live with disabilities. We must remove all barriers that affect the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in society, including through changing attitudes that fuel stigma and institutionalize discrimination.
In September, during the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Disability and Development, United Nations Member States discussed the many ways that exclusion not only impacts the lives of persons with disabilities, but affects the development of communities and society as a whole.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: The dictator’s relatives seek shelter
To Mr.Sadullah Ergin, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Turkey.
Dear Mr.Sadullah Ergin,
Let me express my sincere respect and honor to you on behalf of International Human Rights Organization “FieryHearts Club”, which deals with human rights issues, monitoring and investigative journalism as well as promotion of the civil society development in Uzbekistan and Central Asia as a whole.
