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 ...
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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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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 ...
17 april 2016
University in Uzbekistan Threatens to Expel Students over Cotton Harvest, Claims Cotton Picking is Coursework
The dean of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Land Reclamation threatened to invalidate transcripts of students who did ...
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 ...
21 june 2016
“Robot-athletes” from Russia excluded from Summer Olympics
The IAAF decision to ban the Russian athletes from participating in international competitions is based on revelations of systematic ...