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14 february 2017
ILO: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is not happening because we do not want to believe it
The International Labor Organization (ILO) recently published a report based on a monitoring mission on child and forced labor ...
5 december 2016
Member of Uzbekistan’s National Security Service Orders Burning of Dissident Artists’ Work
On December 2, Shirin Tosheva, the former chief curator of the Urgench City Art Gallery, reported that the National ...
5 december 2016
Member of Uzbekistan’s National Security Service Orders Burning of Dissident Artists’ Work
On December 2, Shirin Tosheva, the former chief curator of the Urgench City Art Gallery, reported that the National ...
30 november 2016
Assets illegitimately acquired by the Uzbek ruling elite should be confiscated and returned to the victims
Press-release   29 November, 2016                                                                                                                   Le Mans, Berlin,  Memphis   Assets acquired by the ruling elite in ...
24 november 2016
Activists and journalists call for the immediate release of journalist Jamshid Karimov from forced psychiatric detention
A group of Uzbek journalists and human rights activists has sent an appeal letter to the German and U.S. ...
16 november 2016
Uzbekistan ranked among the least free in Internet Freedom Report
Uzbekistan has one of the most tightly controlled online and media environments in the world. This was the result ...
16 november 2016
German Journalist deported from Uzbekistan
On November 10th the German journalist Edda Schlager, currently residing in Kazakhstan, was detained in Tashkent and then deported ...
17 october 2016
Cotton 2016 in Uzbekistan: Mother Loses Baby while Doctors Harvest Cotton
On September 28, a 21-year-old woman in labor who was brought to the maternity hospital in the Guzar district ...
28 september 2016
Statements of “voluntary participation” in the cotton harvest are an additional mockery of the people
This year’s forced mobilization of people to the cotton fields which started two weeks ago and has been carried ...
14 september 2016
British Media Coverage of Islam Karimov’s Death
Karimov’s terrible misrule On August 31st The Times published the article “Nightmare in Tashkent”, in which it informs its ...
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20 july 2016
Welcome Adolathon!
The artist Adolathon has joined the team of the Eltuz cartoonists. The 26-year-old artist Adolathon was born in the Kumkurgan ...
6 september 2016
I won’t “cast him off” whatever happens. He is the irreplaceable one.
In one of his interviews deceased President Karimov was truly surprised that Uzbek citizens are leaving to Russia chasing ...
1 december 2015
Exhibition: “BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the former Soviet Union and other Mythical places.”
  The Kuhlhaus in Berlin is currently hosting the exhibition “BALAGAN!!! Contemporary art from the former Soviet Union and ...
6 january 2016
“Russia needs Gas”
Uzbekistan is currently facing one of the worst energy crises in the history of the country. All major cities ...