On May 29, the court in Khorezm, Uzbekistan, upheld the verdict against the protestant church parishioner Sharofat Allamova that was issued on April 11.

The judges of both instances did not take into account 62 violations of the law during the investigation.

Earlier, criminal court of Urgench city sentenced Sharofat Allamova, a member of the local Protestant Church, to one and a half years of corrective labor for “illegal production, possession, import or distribution of religious literature.”

Jamoliddin Kurbanov, the older brother of a refugee from Uzbekistan Fazliddin Kurbanov, who was arrested in the U.S. city of Boise on suspicion of helping terrorist organizations, says that the accusations against his younger brother is no more than a slander.

Came to United States three and a half years ago as a refugee from Tashkent, Fazliddin Kurbanov, was arrested on May 16, 2013 in Boise Idaho on suspicion of possession of explosives, and helping terrorist organizations. The trial of a citizen of Uzbekistan, who is currently under arrest in Boise, is due to start on July 2.

After the premiere of the current affairs program in the series “Mission: Investigate” and the documentary film «TeliaSonera – the Uzbek affair” in September 2012 on the Swedish public television, the investigation of the corruption case is only beginning to gain momentum.

The film of three Swedish journalists Sven Bergmann, Fredrick Laurin and Joachim Difvermark from the SVT Göteborg shows the cooperation of the telecommunications giant TeliaSonera with the intelligence agencies not only in Uzbekistan, but also in other countries of post-Soviet bloc and shows how TeliaSonera provides full access to the telephone calls of their subscribers.\

Istanbul became the human rights capital of the world for one week. More than 200 NGOs from 130 countries got together to discuss and exchange views during the 38th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights.

On Thursday, May 23, Istanbul started hosting a five-day 38th Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on a current theme: “Human Rights and Democratic Transitions: Experiences and Challenges”, which will brings together 164 organizations from around the world.

Five representatives of Uzbekistan failed to attend the launch of a new peacekeeping project supported by the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek.

The first phase of the project involved a regional conference entitled “Generation of peace: New media technologies for Central Asia”, which took place in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, from May 14 to 17 this year. More than 40 leaders and community activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan participated in the event. The selection took place among 230 candidates.

Video: Looking for the Uzbek Dictator’s Daughter Gulnara

Paris, France May 21, 2013 – International Human Rights Organization «Fiery Hearts Club» together with Mulberry Media presents a video that shows what exactly happened during the visit to the Gulnara Karimova’s mansion (15 million Euros) in Geneva on the 2nd of March.

As you remember, Gulnara in her Blog accused all of us in trying to break into her house and later connected this with the incident of the damaged official car in the garage of the Uzbek Mission to the United Nations.

Dear Mr.Eric Bertinat,

On behalf of the international human rights organization “Fiery Hearts Club” let us express our respect and appreciation for your political activities in the Swiss People’s Party.

On April 24, 2013, independent Internet publications have published information about your appeal to the authorities of Geneva to investigate the origin of funds of the Kazakh fugitive official Viktor Khrapunov. Given the fact that Viktor and Leila Khrapunovs are wanted by Interpol on the request of Kazakhstan, where they are accused of committing a series of crimes, your appeal is timely and very important.

In the beginning of the year, people sick with AIDS were forced to flee from several districts of Karakalpakstan, autonomous republic in Uzbekistan.

The efforts of the state funded medicine in treating of people sick with AIDS are clashing with mentality of the local population and outright indifference of the authorities.

– We are believed to be lepers, – says Gul Azhiniyazova, resident of the 23th neighborhood of Nukus city. – But I’m not to blame for this disease. My husband came from Kazakhstan and brought the infection into our home. I had a gynecological disease and passed the tests. That’s how I learned of the terrible sickness. Then they checked my husband. We were promised they would hide it in secret, but neighbors quickly learned about it. I had to go to neighboring Khorezm city. Now we are planning to move to Tashkent.

In Uzbekistan, the country’s citizens, who have a residence permit in another country, are not allowed to live with their relatives.

According to 60-year-old resident of capital city Tashkent, Nadir Lazizov, Uzbek officials are not allowing his daughter Samina, who came last month from Almaty to Tashkent to see her parents, to live in his house. The reason for this, according to Lazizov, was the fact that his daughter has a residence permit in Kazakhstan.

By Hugh Williamson and Steve Swerdlow

Eight years after the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster. When will the EU change its strategy towards Uzbekistan?

Eight years have passed since one of the worst massacres in the former Soviet Union. On 13 May 2005, security forces in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on protesters, the vast majority unarmed, killing hundreds of men, women and children as they tried to flee. No one has been held accountable, and the authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, has defied calls for an independent investigation.