On June 21, during his trip to the Jizzak region of Uzbekistan, president Islam Karimov called Uzbek migrant workers, working in Russia, “lazy people”, and the fact of their presence in the labor migration was “disgusting and humiliating for the Uzbek people”.

Karimov, who said “no one in Uzbekistan is dying of hunger,” also added that “those, who went to Russia to earn money fast, are lazy, because they want to earn a lot of money quickly.”

ISTANBUL (29 May, 2013): On 27-28 May, I visited Uzbekistan where I had meetings at the ministerial level with State authorities, top justice officials and representatives of the international community and civil society. The level of interlocutors I met while in Tashkent and the quality of discussions indicates a window of opportunity to strengthen cooperation.

While some progress has been made, a number of serious human rights concerns remain in Uzbekistan, including torture, arbitrary detention, the lack of freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, the harassment of civil society, journalists and opposition, as well as forced labour. All of these, as well as a number of other issues, were discussed in a constructive spirit, informed by the recommendations of the UN human rights mechanisms.

The bloody events of June 10-14, 2010, happened in Osh and Jalalabad, southern regions of Kyrgyzstan, by their cruelty and ruthlessness, definitely entered the history of inhuman events of our time.

During those days, hundreds of people, including infants, children, women and old people, were killed based on their ethnic backgrounds. Modern humanity has witnessed the burning people alive. In the era of globalization and informationalism, all these atrocities, genetically not inherent to the normal person, were recorded on millions of digital data holders, and were shown globally.

International human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” is closely following the recent developments around the activities of the Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera in Uzbekistan.

Recently, in late May, the Swedish public television aired a new documentary film about the corrupt cooperation of TeliaSonera with the eldest daughter of Islam Karimov – Gulnara Karimova, and the pro-government structures of Uzbekistan.

On May 29, the court in Khorezm, Uzbekistan, upheld the verdict against the protestant church parishioner Sharofat Allamova that was issued on April 11.

The judges of both instances did not take into account 62 violations of the law during the investigation.

Earlier, criminal court of Urgench city sentenced Sharofat Allamova, a member of the local Protestant Church, to one and a half years of corrective labor for “illegal production, possession, import or distribution of religious literature.”

Jamoliddin Kurbanov, the older brother of a refugee from Uzbekistan Fazliddin Kurbanov, who was arrested in the U.S. city of Boise on suspicion of helping terrorist organizations, says that the accusations against his younger brother is no more than a slander.

Came to United States three and a half years ago as a refugee from Tashkent, Fazliddin Kurbanov, was arrested on May 16, 2013 in Boise Idaho on suspicion of possession of explosives, and helping terrorist organizations. The trial of a citizen of Uzbekistan, who is currently under arrest in Boise, is due to start on July 2.

After the premiere of the current affairs program in the series “Mission: Investigate” and the documentary film «TeliaSonera – the Uzbek affair” in September 2012 on the Swedish public television, the investigation of the corruption case is only beginning to gain momentum.

The film of three Swedish journalists Sven Bergmann, Fredrick Laurin and Joachim Difvermark from the SVT Göteborg shows the cooperation of the telecommunications giant TeliaSonera with the intelligence agencies not only in Uzbekistan, but also in other countries of post-Soviet bloc and shows how TeliaSonera provides full access to the telephone calls of their subscribers.\

Istanbul became the human rights capital of the world for one week. More than 200 NGOs from 130 countries got together to discuss and exchange views during the 38th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights.

On Thursday, May 23, Istanbul started hosting a five-day 38th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on a current theme: “Human Rights and Democratic Transitions: Experiences and Challenges”, which will brings together 164 organizations from around the world.

Five representatives of Uzbekistan failed to attend the launch of a new peacekeeping project supported by the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek.

The first phase of the project involved a regional conference entitled “Generation of peace: New media technologies for Central Asia”, which took place in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, from May 14 to 17 this year. More than 40 leaders and community activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan participated in the event. The selection took place among 230 candidates.

Video: Looking for the Uzbek Dictator’s Daughter Gulnara

Paris, France May 21, 2013 – International Human Rights Organization «Fiery Hearts Club» together with Mulberry Media presents a video that shows what exactly happened during the visit to the Gulnara Karimova’s mansion (15 million Euros) in Geneva on the 2nd of March.

As you remember, Gulnara in her Blog accused all of us in trying to break into her house and later connected this with the incident of the damaged official car in the garage of the Uzbek Mission to the United Nations.