Category Archives: Human Rights
Ganikhon Mamatkhonov was thrown into a punishment cell for going to toilet three times without permission
Relatives of Ganikhon Mamatkhonov, a well-known human rights activist from Fergana, informed “Jarayon” that the Navoi prison administration refuses to inform them about his whereabouts.
On March 21, a “Jarayon”journalist managed to talk on the phone with Zhaloliddin Mamatkhonov, a son of Ganikhon Mamathonov, a prominent human rights activist from Ferghana, an activist of the International Organization for Human Rights Protection. Zhaloliddin Mamatkhonov spoke about the reason of his father punishment in an isolation ward.
Mutabar Tadjbayeva: Location of Ulugbek Ostonov remains unknown
Family members of Ulugbek Ostonov, extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011, including 29 Muslim refugees, have expressed concerns about his life.
A few days ago relatives of Ulugbek Ostonov appealed to Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of “Fiery Hearts Club” international human rights organization. Ulugbek Ostonov is a young man, who was among the 29 Uzbek Muslim refugees extradited to Uzbekistan by the Kazakh authorities in the summer of 2011.
According to them, Ulugbek Ostonov’s whereabouts have remained unknown since December 2013.
We condemn putting Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward
Uzbek authorities have put 61-year old well-known Uzbek human rights defender Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward on the eve of his long-awaited release from the penal colony on March 10, 2014.
The human rights activist has been serving a 4.5 year sentence as a result of fabricated criminal case against him for his human rights activities. Ganikhon Mamatkhonov is considered a political prisoner; therefore his case requires special attention.
Fiery Hearts Club international human rights organization condemns putting famous Uzbek human rights activist Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward, and believes that the Uzbek authorities purposefully made such a step to extend the prison sentence of the human rights activist accusing him of alleged disobedience of rules of the administration penal institutions (Article 221 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan).
Kayum Ortikov was accompanied by a psychologist on the way from Ukraine to the United States
Kayum Ortikov, a former security officer of the British Embassy in Tashkent was granted asylum in America, and on 20 February 2014 he left the Ukraine, where he had to reside with his family for more than two years due to persecution in Uzbekistan.
According to Mokhira Ortikova, Kayum Ortikov’s wife, they arrived in the city of Harrisburg on the night of February 20, where a house was provided for their family for residence in the United States (Harrisburg is the capital of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Dauphin – Jarayon’s note).
UN reviews Kyrgyzstan’s human rights, free press record
By Muzaffar Suleymanov/SPJ Europe and Central Asia Research Associate.
Today, the U.N. Human Rights Committee begins its two-day review of Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. By ratifying the treaty in October 1994, Kyrgyz authorities pledged to enforce internationally recognized provisions regarding the protection of human rights, and freedom of expression, in their country.
Health status of Mekhriniso Khamdamova, a Muslim from Kashkadarya, has deteriorated in prison
According to relatives of Mekhriniso Khamdamova, who was imprisoned for religious beliefs, her health is deteriorating day by day in a women’s prison.
On the eve of 8 March, Jarayon’s journalist managed to talk on the telephone with a relative of Mekhriniso Khamdamova condemned in Uzbekistan on religious grounds. A woman, who introduced herself as Makhbuba, said that a gynecological surgery of Mekhriniso Khamdamova scheduled for February 2014 had been postponed.
Mohira Ortiqova: Let’s fight together for life without tortures!
In January 2009, when my husband Ortikov was imprisoned for six years charged with “human trafficking”, I still believed that justice would prevail, and my husband would be acquitted because in our prospering independent Uzbekistan things could not be otherwise, achievements of which had been continuously covered by newspapers and television.
However, in May 2009, after I learned that tortures were applied against my husband to force him to plead guilty of spying for Britain, I began doubting that Uzbekistan has fair courts and lives of people are well protected.
In Tadjikistan, tortured prisoner lost his left ear
According to relatives of prisoner Umed Teshev, who stabbed the prison head with scissors in the city prison of Kulob, the southern part of Tajikistan, he was tortured by jailers and now his life is in danger.
The Public Committee against Torture located in Dushanbe reported that the relatives of Umed Teshev appealed to the Committee asking for help hire a lawyer.
“We spoke with Umed Teshev’s relatives. They do not have information whether Umed is alive or not. According to them, Umed Teshev’s former attorney visited him in the prison. The lawyer told his relatives that Umed’s hands were swollen, he could not move his fingers, and his left ear was cut off,” representatives of the Public Committee against Torture told local reporters.
Lawlessness of Islam Karimov: crime without limitation period
To Mass media, NGOs and leaders of youth movements of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Dear Colleagues,
Massive pressure of international non-governmental organizations and human rights leaders, covering problems of the Republic of Uzbekistan, has become one of the main reasons for the cancellation of the visit of President Islam Karimov to Prague scheduled for February 21-23.
Not wanting to discredit his Cabinet, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic as well as a number of key ministers, including the Mayor of Prague, refused to meet with the leader of a totalitarian country Islam Karimov under plausible pretexts.
Rozlana Taukina: The main objective of the Kazakh authorities is to control the information space
Several independent newspapers are on trial these days in Kazakhstan, including “Pravdivaya Gazeta” (True newspaper), which existed only a few months.
In her interview with Jarayon, Rozlana Taukina, a public figure and journalist well-known in Kazakhstan, the chief editor of Pravdivaya Gazeta,speaks about reasons of the newspaper’s closure and attitude of the authorities to independent media.
