Category Archives: Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Free Political Prisoners on Constitution Day
(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, 2012, human rights groups said today. Freeing the country’s many political prisoners would demonstrate a genuine commitment to Uzbekistan’s much-touted reform process, the groups said.
The nine groups are Human Rights Watch, Freedom Now, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, the International Partnership for Human Rights, the International Association for Human Rights Defense “Fiery Hearts Club,” PEN American Center, ACAT-France, and the International Federation for Human Rights.
Representative of Kazakhstan visited 29 Uzbek refugees in prison of Uzbekistan
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 Hearts Club,” based in France, closely monitors the fate of 29 Uzbek refugees, who were extradited last year from Almaty, Kazakhstan, to Tashkent.
European Union should announce its position on political killings in its territory
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 Central Asian.
During the visit, Catherine Ashton will meet with the senior governmental officials in Uzbekistan, in particular, with the President Islam Karimov.
Aral Sea population is given a right to survive
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 diseases have skyrocketed among the population.
According to a doctor from Kungrad, “mainly it is children, who are falling sick because of cold, as their weak body cannot cope with it.
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.
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.
