March 2013 ойлик архив
USA: Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama to present the award of courage to Mutabar Tadjibayeva
Uzbek diplomatic mission in Geneva filed a complaint to police on Mutabar Tadjibayeva
A popular French-language Swiss newspaper Le Temps wrote on March 5 that the Mission of Uzbekistan to the UN Geneva office filed a complaint to police stating that Mutabar Tadjibayeva, prominent human rights activist and several other people, tried to illegally enter the house of Gulnara Karimova, eldest daughter of the Uzbek president Islam Karimov, violating the personal space and property of persons with diplomatic status.
According to the newspaper, Mutabar Tadjibayeva recently visited the Swiss city of Colonia, where Gulnara Karimova’s house is located.
“The State, it is I” or An unsuccessful bid to meet Gulnara Karimova
The airing of the documentary and its subsequent discussion were event-free. However, something strange happened afterwards.
La Côte: Mauvais roman au bout du Léman
“Comment dit-on Cologny en russe?” La question surprend: “Et comment dit-on Tachkent, en français, Mutabar?” Mutabar Tadjibayeva rigole et précise le sens de sa question: “Je me demandais simplement si cela ne voulait pas dire kolonia?”
Mauvais roman au bout du Léman
La Côte – Mauvais roman au bout du Léman
GENÈVE. Une promenade du week-end vaut à une journaliste et militante
Bakhtiyar Fattohov: Canceling tests in Uzbek language is a type of discrimination
Starting 2013, graduates of Uzbek schools in Kyrgyzstan will not be able to take university admission tests in Uzbek language.
According to the decision of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, starting 2013 national university admission tests will be held only in Kyrgyz and Russian.
Massacre in Uzbekistan documentary on 2005 events aired and discussed in Geneva (video)
A documentary entitled The Massacre in Uzbekistan, which talks about the tragic events in Andijan, Uzbekistan, in May 2005, was aired and discussed on 1 Mar. 2013 in Geneva.
Uzbekistan : un silence complice / a complicit… по fifdhgeneve
UN asks Kazakhstan not to extradite the Uzbek refugee
Letter sent by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” states that an individual complaint, written on the case of Khairullo Tursunov, asylum seekers from Uzbekistan, is received and during its consideration Tursunov must not be extradited to Uzbekistan.
“The UN body writes that the complaint, which we prepared on the case of Khairullo Tursunov, is accepted. The Bureau sent one copy of this complaint to Kazakh authorities.
CPJ: Kyrgyzstan should reopen case of jailed journalist
On February 27, the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, filed the appeal to the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan to reconsider publicly the case of Azimjon Askarov, human rights defender from Jalalabad, who was sentenced to life in prison in September 2010 on charges that included incitement to mass disorder, attempted kidnapping, and participation in a police officer’s murder during the ethnic unrest in the region in 2010.
Copies of the appeal were sent to the President of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States and U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, the Foreign Minister and the Minister of Justice of Kyrgyzstan, the U.S. State Department, as well as the OSCE.
Geneva police is looking for Uzbek rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva
On Sunday, March 3, Mutabar Tadjibayeva, human rights activist from Uzbekistan and head of the International Human Rights Organization “Fiery Hearts Club”, informed “Jarayon” that she is wanted by police in Geneva, where she is participating in International Human Rights Film Festival.
According to her, the police did not give any explanations to the organizers of the film festival to the reasons why the law enforcement officers of Switzerland are searching for well-known Uzbek human rights activist.
Switzerland hosts the International Film Festival on Human Rights
Today Geneva starts hosting the 11th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH). On the first day of the event, participants will discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan.
FIFDH starts on March 1 and will last for ten days. According to organizers, on the first day of the event participants will discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Also, on this day, participants will have chance to see a documentary “Massacre in Uzbekistan”, created by Danish journalist Michael Andersen.
