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Home of Poet and Journalist Mahmud Rajabov Raided by Police tuesday, 21 may 2019 On May 10, police raided the home of a 55-year-old journalist and poet Mahmud Rajabov in the ...
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Uzbekistan’s new leader fails his first test
25 september 2017
One year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in ...
“Autocrat par Excellence”
11 september 2016
German media articles reporting on the Uzbek President’s death focused on the controversial legacy of ...
Uncomfortable activists: Responses from the World Bank
28 july 2016
“When people’s rights to assemble and associate are restricted — whether by an environment of ...
23 june 2016
The price of celebrating independence in Uzbekistan’s schools
The education department in Uzbekistan is forcing schools and kindergartens to sell banners which have been printed to mark ...
23 may 2016
The Cover-Up: Whitewashing Uzbekistan’s White Gold
See the full report here: http://harvestreport2015.uzbekgermanforum.org/ The evidence from the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan indicates that the government ...
20 august 2015
Uzbek officials: “Our prisons are most progressive, mass media are most democratic; no torture, because it is prohibited!”
Every five years starting in 1996 Uzbekistan delivers a report before UN Committee for Human Rights on the implementation ...
9 june 2015
Findings
These are the results of the complex expert review by specialists who were assembled to conduct the review and ...
9 may 2015
VERDICT
VERDICT in the name of the Republic of Uzbekistan On June 15 2006 the Yangiyer city court on criminal ...
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21 november 2015
Journalist waiting for his release from prison
On 1 October 2015, the Uzbek political prisoner Muhammad Bekzhanov reached the age of 61.  61 years of which ...
31 january 2018
Chairman of the Uzbek National Security Service Dismissed
On January 31, 2018, the Chairman of the Uzbek National Security Service (SNB), Rustam Inoyatov, was dismissed. This was ...
1 december 2015
Case against Uktam Pardayev deadlocked
The investigation of the case of the Jizzakh human rights activist Uktam Pardayev is deadlocked. The investigator of the ...
23 may 2016
The Cover-Up: Whitewashing Uzbekistan’s White Gold
See the full report here: http://harvestreport2015.uzbekgermanforum.org/ The evidence from the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan indicates that the government ...