Mutabar Tadjibayeva, a leading human rights defender from Uzbekistan, arrived in Berlin, where she will be available for interviews for the next two weeks, HRW reports. She was awarded the prestigious Martin…
Inga Sikorskaya/IWPR, Bishkek – Following a meeting of the EU’s General Affairs and External Relations Council on October 13, a statement was issued saying the EU “welcomes the progress achieved in Uzbekistan in…
The Council also welcomed the progress that had been made in Uzbekistan during the last year, especially the fact that the prominent defender of human rights Mutabar Tadjibayeva was allowed…
In order to jail this woman, a lot of people were needed: the police, the SNB (Slujba natsional’noy bezopasnosti – National Security Service, the successor of the Soviet KGB), representatives from…
Certain progress in the relations between Uzbekistan and the West has been undeniable. This assumption is confirmed by frequent visits US and EU senior officials pay to Tashkent, the announcements…
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher spent several quite busy days in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Boucher met with President Islam Karimov, Foreign…
The international community appeals to EU countries to heed the lot of Gulbahor Turayeva and Umida Niyazova, human rights activists tried and sentenced to imprisonment in Uzbekistan. Here is the…
25 May 07 – New defence is being considered for defenders of civil society rights by the nearly 1,000 participants in the Civicus world assembly under way in Glasgow this week. Sanjay…
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