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.

The International Forum entitled Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on Freedom of Expression and Privacy was jointly organized by the Global Network Initiative and Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on 13 November 2013 in Brussels.

The Forum was attended by representatives of several reputable companies and international human rights organizations that tried to find answers to topical questions related to freedom of speech and the right to privacy.

Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, participated at the given forum following the official invitation of the Global Network Initiative and Telecommunication Dialogue.

To Mr.Sadullah Ergin, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Turkey.

Dear Mr.Sadullah Ergin,

Let me express my sincere respect and honor to you on behalf of International Human Rights Organization “FieryHearts Club”, which deals with human rights issues, monitoring and investigative journalism as well as promotion of the civil society development in Uzbekistan and Central Asia as a whole.

In the 80s of the last century, Javid Novruzov , one of the authors of the newly written song “Move, Karimov”, studied in one of the universities of Tashkent, capital city of Uzbekistan. In those years, the singer, who spent five years of his best student years in Uzbekistan, personally experienced what it is to swallow the dust in the cotton fields.

You are overstuffed with for your dismal aptitude to lead

King of kings in a cotton land
Heading right into the pit …

It is the beginning lines of a song “Move, Karimov”, written by a band Foreign Accent, which was formed 10 years ago in US state of Illinois.

To French Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights Ms. Patrizianna Sparacino-Thiellay.

Your Excellency Madame Sparacino-Thiellay!

Expressing my deep respect and reverence to you, I would like to discuss with you some issues related to your visit to Uzbekistan on 23-25 ​​October 2013.

I very much hope for reciprocity and I expect to receive answers to my questions.

Prosecutor’s Office of Switzerland decided that there is no reasons for opening a criminal case against Mutabar Tadjibayeva, head of the International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, and her colleagues on the basis of the complaint of Denis Makarov, officer at the mission of Uzbekistan to the UN Geneva office.

This is stated in the notification of the law enforcement agencies of Switzerland to Denis Makarov, representative of Uzbek diplomatic mission, sent on April 9.