March 2014 ойлик архив
Torture victims from Uzbekistan organized “For Life without Torture” initiative group
Uzbek human rights activists state that annually, hundreds of people become victims of torture, and most of them die in Uzbekistan’s prisons.
The initiative group “For Life without Torture” was organized following an initiative of three families, torture victims from Uzbekistan: the Tadjibayevs from France, the Ortikovs from the U.S.A and the Ruzievs from Holland.
The Group will operate under “Fiery Hearts Club” International Human Rights Organization. They timed the establishment of the group to 24 March, the International Day of the Right to Truth about Gross Human Rights Violations and Dignity of Victims.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: Briefing on human rights situation in Uzbekistan
Presented to the EU – Uzbekistan meeting, Brussels, 14 March 2014.
The EU is preparing for the next series of discussions of the situation in Uzbekistan. International Association Human Rights“Fiery Hearts Club” takes this opportunity to analyze in this paper the current trends and development in the human rights situation of Uzbekistan, its relations with the European Union as well as draws the bloc’s attention to the major human rights problems and their solutions.
While focusing on the perspectives of human rights situation in Uzbekistan probably it will make a good entry point to mention that today human rights issue is perceived by the Uzbek authorities first of all as a political issue, the flow of which can have significant influence on the Uzbekistani internal and external politics.
Ganikhon Mamatkhonov was thrown into a punishment cell for going to toilet three times without permission
Relatives of Ganikhon Mamatkhonov, a well-known human rights activist from Fergana, informed “Jarayon” that the Navoi prison administration refuses to inform them about his whereabouts.
On March 21, a “Jarayon”journalist managed to talk on the phone with Zhaloliddin Mamatkhonov, a son of Ganikhon Mamathonov, a prominent human rights activist from Ferghana, an activist of the International Organization for Human Rights Protection. Zhaloliddin Mamatkhonov spoke about the reason of his father punishment in an isolation ward.
Mutabar Tadjbayeva: Location of Ulugbek Ostonov remains unknown
Family members of Ulugbek Ostonov, extradited from Almaty to Tashkent in 2011, including 29 Muslim refugees, have expressed concerns about his life.
A few days ago relatives of Ulugbek Ostonov appealed to Mutabar Tadjibayeva, the head of “Fiery Hearts Club” international human rights organization. Ulugbek Ostonov is a young man, who was among the 29 Uzbek Muslim refugees extradited to Uzbekistan by the Kazakh authorities in the summer of 2011.
According to them, Ulugbek Ostonov’s whereabouts have remained unknown since December 2013.
We condemn putting Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward
Uzbek authorities have put 61-year old well-known Uzbek human rights defender Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward on the eve of his long-awaited release from the penal colony on March 10, 2014.
The human rights activist has been serving a 4.5 year sentence as a result of fabricated criminal case against him for his human rights activities. Ganikhon Mamatkhonov is considered a political prisoner; therefore his case requires special attention.
Fiery Hearts Club international human rights organization condemns putting famous Uzbek human rights activist Ganikhon Mamatkhonov in an isolation ward, and believes that the Uzbek authorities purposefully made such a step to extend the prison sentence of the human rights activist accusing him of alleged disobedience of rules of the administration penal institutions (Article 221 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan).
Kayum Ortikov was accompanied by a psychologist on the way from Ukraine to the United States
Kayum Ortikov, a former security officer of the British Embassy in Tashkent was granted asylum in America, and on 20 February 2014 he left the Ukraine, where he had to reside with his family for more than two years due to persecution in Uzbekistan.
According to Mokhira Ortikova, Kayum Ortikov’s wife, they arrived in the city of Harrisburg on the night of February 20, where a house was provided for their family for residence in the United States (Harrisburg is the capital of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Dauphin – Jarayon’s note).
UN reviews Kyrgyzstan’s human rights, free press record
By Muzaffar Suleymanov/SPJ Europe and Central Asia Research Associate.
Today, the U.N. Human Rights Committee begins its two-day review of Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. By ratifying the treaty in October 1994, Kyrgyz authorities pledged to enforce internationally recognized provisions regarding the protection of human rights, and freedom of expression, in their country.
Health status of Mekhriniso Khamdamova, a Muslim from Kashkadarya, has deteriorated in prison
According to relatives of Mekhriniso Khamdamova, who was imprisoned for religious beliefs, her health is deteriorating day by day in a women’s prison.
On the eve of 8 March, Jarayon’s journalist managed to talk on the telephone with a relative of Mekhriniso Khamdamova condemned in Uzbekistan on religious grounds. A woman, who introduced herself as Makhbuba, said that a gynecological surgery of Mekhriniso Khamdamova scheduled for February 2014 had been postponed.
Mohira Ortiqova: Let’s fight together for life without tortures!
In January 2009, when my husband Ortikov was imprisoned for six years charged with “human trafficking”, I still believed that justice would prevail, and my husband would be acquitted because in our prospering independent Uzbekistan things could not be otherwise, achievements of which had been continuously covered by newspapers and television.
However, in May 2009, after I learned that tortures were applied against my husband to force him to plead guilty of spying for Britain, I began doubting that Uzbekistan has fair courts and lives of people are well protected.
