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30 march 2016
Aramais Avakian: We were tortured by electric shock
On 22 March 2016 the Jizzak region criminal court heard the appeal of Aramais Avakian, Furkat Juraev, Bektemir Umurzakov ...
2 march 2016
Three Uzbek Human Rights Defenders Receive International Award
The International Labour Rights Forum (ILRF) has granted the International Workers’ Rights Defenders Awards 2016 to Uzbek human rights ...
18 december 2015
The chronicle of Uktam Pardayev’s criminal case
Uktam Pardayev, an Uzbek human rights defender from Jizzak city, was charged with violation of two articles of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
16 november 2015
Uzbekistan: Police arrested human rights defender Uktam Pardaev
Today in Jizzak city, Uzbekistan, the police arrested human rights defender Uktam Pardayev after raiding his home and confiscating ...
3 november 2015
To resist the evil
Dear Mr. President, I appeal to you not as a journalist and human rights activist, but as a woman, ...
15 september 2015
Umida Niyazova on Fear, Oppression and Resistance in Uzbekistan
Umida Niyazova, True Heroe from Uzbekistan. Founder of German-based NGO Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF). Harassed, imprisoned, forced ...
10 september 2015
Steve Swerdlow HRW on Andijan Massacre
Steve Swerdlow of Human Rights Watch speaks on the 10th anniversary of Andijan massacre and the current situation in ...
8 september 2015
Cotton Crimes: forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry
Dear all Just to let you all know that have released our new video today. It is a doodle ...
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11 january 2018
Imams Endorse Mirziyoyev’s Initiative to Show Films in Mosques
Eltuz sources have confirmed that imams have shown support for President Mirziyoyev’s initiative to show educational and cultural films ...
15 february 2016
Diagnoses in Uzbek: “If the money won’t be here within the next five minutes, you will die”
The Uzbek government claims that more than half of the country’s budget is spent on social services, especially education ...
28 september 2016
Uzbekistan’s Imams Declare Picking Cotton is Mandatory in Islam
 In Uzbekistan the imams of mosques are calling on worshipers during Friday prayers to go out to harvest. Some ...
28 july 2017
Head of District Educational Department: “Teachers, not the farmers need the cotton”
On 21 July 2017, the Uzbek website www.sof.uz posted the audio recording of a meeting of school directors and ...