Category Archives: Human Rights
Uzbek migrant workers are becoming victims of slavery
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 unemployment, people from Uzbekistan are coming to Armenia to find jobs. But quite often these jobs are underpaid, illegal, or in slavery.
Call upon authorities to provide full information on Yuri Zhukovsky case
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 wanted in connection with the murder attempt of the famous Uzbek imam Obidkhon Nazarov. 34-year-old Yuri Zhukovsky, presumably a native of Uzbekistan, had a double (Uzbek and Russian) citizenship.
United Nations Human Rights Committee United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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 seven months he has been detained in the city of Aktobe in Aktobe region. In addition, the General Prosecutor of Kazakhstan made a decision to satisfy a petition to extradite the Uzbek refugee Mr. Khairullo Tursunov.
Election of Kazakhstan to the UN Human Rights Council has caused a storm of criticism
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 67th session of UN General Assembly, which included elections to the UN Human Rights Council for the period of 2013-2015.
In UN complaint, Azimjon Askarov seeks justice, freedom
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, filed an appeal today with the U.N. Human Rights Committee that seeks his release.
Askarov’s lawyer, Nurbek Toktakunov, and a team of experts from the Open Society Justice Initiative filed a 115-page complaint with the U.N. body.
Uzbek media started defaming human rights activist Gulshan Karaeva
«Qashqadaryo» newspaper of Karshi city published an article that defames human rights activist Gulshan Karaeva. Mutabar Tajibayeva, head of the international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, says that the article was “ordered” by security services.
In a phone conversation with a reporter of “Jarayon”, Gulshan Karaeva, who is a representative of unregistered Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan on Qashqadaryo region, said that her friends informed her about the published article about her.
Yet another Uzbek asylum seeker may be extradited from Kazakhstan
The Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan made a decision to extradite Uzbek asylum seeker Khairullo Tursunov back to Uzbekistan.
Asylum seeker Khairullo Tursunov, who has been held for seven months in pre-trial detention center of Aktobe city, is already informed about the decision of Attorney General.
PETITION: Free Jailed Journalist Azimjon Askarov
To: Almazbek Atambayev, president of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Dear President Atambayev,
At its 2012 International Press Freedom Awards on November 20, the Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four journalists, who risked their lives to reveal abuses of power in Brazil, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Liberia.
Ekaterina Nazarshoeva: Migration is an interstate problem
On October 9, about fifty migrant workers from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan held a strike in St. Petersburg. According to the Russian trade union activists, majority of striking migrants, most of who worked as janitors, were legal immigrants.
These people went on strike to defend their rights and get their salaries that they haven’t received for two months.
Kashkadarya continues to force children pick cotton
Despites the authorities’ promises not to involve child labor in cotton campaign, Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan still continues to force children work in harvesting “the white gold”.
“Jarayon” received this information from Malohat Eshonova, journalist and coordinator of “Birdamlik” movement in Uzbekistan, who observed child labor in cotton plantations.
