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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3 august 2017
“Corruptistan” – Of Princesses and Fraudsters
Last Friday, the Uzbekistan prosecutor’s office confirmed that the daughter of the former Uzbek president Islam Karimov has been ...
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 ...
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 september 2015
Saint Yelena was put into cage in Khorezm
– Some spies have been caught. They say that it is illegal to force people to pick cotton. – ...