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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
According to relatives of prisoner Umed Teshev, who stabbed the prison head with scissors in the city prison of Kulob, the southern part of Tajikistan, he was tortured by jailers…
To Mass media, NGOs and leaders of youth movements of the Kingdom of Sweden. Dear Colleagues, Massive pressure of international non-governmental organizations and human rights leaders, covering problems of the…
Several independent newspapers are on trial these days in Kazakhstan, including “Pravdivaya Gazeta” (True newspaper), which existed only a few months. In her interview with Jarayon, Rozlana Taukina, a public…
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