Analysis

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 ...

Analysis

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 ...