Portraits of Uzbek human rights defender Mutabar Tadjibayeva were made by Swiss photographer Marie Bastashevski, who also cooperates with funds providing Internet security consulting.
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Journalist Galima Bukharbaeva is suing news portal Zamondosh for libel
PRESS RELEASE
Galima Bukharbaeva v. Zamondosh:
Berlin, February 9th, 2016 – The district court of Arnhem, the Netherlands, is expected to hear a defamation case brought by independent journalist from Uzbekistan Galima Bukharbaeva against the website Zamondosh. The Netherlands-based Zamondosh is accused of damaging Bukharbaeva’s professional reputation.
Well-known journalist Bukharbaeva, who headed the now defunct Uznews.net, says Zamondosh carried a series of libelous materials against her. She seeks a written rectification as well as compensation for the damage suffered.
Petition on the behalf of imprisoned Uzbek journalist Salijon Abdurakhmanov
Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Dear Chancellor Merkel,
We, the undersigned, ask for your support and assistance in getting the government of Uzbekistan to release the 64-year-old journalist Salijon Abdurakhmanov from prison.
We ask you to take a minute of your time and call the Uzbek President Islam Karimov to personally ask him to release Abdurakhmanov.
Independent journalist Dilmurod Sayid was told about his mother’s death a month after her decease
Obidzhon Saidov told “Jarayon” that he visited his elder brother Dilmurod Sayidin the prison in Karshi on 8 November 2014.
“On 8-9 November I was visiting my brother in the prison in Karshi. We did not have time to sleep as we talked until dawn. He looked so-so, sometimes he coughed. He said he had a little cold. He is depressed. My brother asked me to thank everybody, who struggle for his release. He expressed his greatest gratitude to human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva.
Dilmurod told me: ‘If, God willing, I am freed from the prison, first of all I’ll go to the cemetery to pay honor in the memory of my mother, wife and daughter. After that, my first duty will be to visit this precious woman,’” said Obidzhon Saidov.