Dear Ms. Marie Ehrling,

Availing myself of this opportunity please let me express my sincere respect to you and your colleagues and wish all the best in 2014. I would be grateful if you find this letter as a continuation of our ongoing communication and dialogue on TeliaSonera’s activities in Uzbekistan and its possible implications on human rights situation in the country.

At the beginning I would like to present to you my several thoughts on the points you and your colleagues have raised in your latest responses to our previous requests for information as there seem to be some serious contradictions in your points.

To President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman.

Dear Mr. President,

It is 25 years since Islam Karimov has been continuously ruling Uzbekistan, having turned one of the most promising countries of Central Asia into a police state, which allows the government keeping people in fear and obedience, where there are no independent civil society organizations and freedom of speech, and where human rights are permanently violated.

The number of political prisoners per capita is highest in the post-Soviet space. Tortures and ill- treatment of prisoners regularly occur and remain unpunished.

To Mr.Thomas Kunze, regional authorized representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Uzbekistan/Central Asia.

Dear Mr.Thomas Kunze!

Fiery Hearts Club is an international human rights organization registered in the prefecture of Paris (France) in 2011, which deals with issues of rights and freedoms in Uzbekistan.

One of the priorities of Fiery Hearts Club is prevention of tortures and other cruel, inhuman or dignity degrading treatments and punishments in Uzbekistan.

Dear Mr Minister

First of all, I would like to extend you my sincere New Year greetings. I wish you strong health and success in all your future endeavors for the good of the Greek people.

I hope that you are informed on the events regarding the destiny of the Greek citizen Yanis Galanos.

The case is the following:

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).

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.

“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.”

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.