Special opinion

Azam Turgunov on the ex-prison warden, Abdukarim Shodiyev: “This person deserves to be imprisoned for a long time.” tuesday, 20 march 2018 56-year-old Abdukarim Shodiyev, who had been the head of the Central Penal Correction Department (CPCD) until February ...
Special opinion
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 ...
How Baba Became an Artist
12 december 2015
Shukrat is artist from Khorezm, Uzbekistan. For several years he has been living and working ...
Umida Niyazova on Fear, Oppression and Resistance in Uzbekistan
15 september 2015
Umida Niyazova, True Heroe from Uzbekistan. Founder of German-based NGO Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights ...
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
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18 december 2015
“My compatriots, the cotton farmers, grant me some castles.”
On December 15, 2015, The New York Times published an article about a new generation of “hyper-luxury homes” on ...
2 april 2018
On March 29, 2018, the senators of the Parliament of Uzbekistan approved the Law “On the State Security Service of the Republic of Uzbekistan”
The chairman of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan, Ikhtiyor Abdullayev, made a speech at a meeting in the ...
21 july 2016
Fergana Valley: Teachers, doctors and nurses forced to prune cotton plants
Officials are forcibly mobilizing teachers, doctors and nurses to prune the cotton plants instead of doing their ordinary work ...
7 october 2015
“But where are the locals? Where are the people from Samarkand?”
Artist: Tuz Distribution of “Green Cards” launched The US State Department has announced that it starts to accept applications ...