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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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 ...
20 august 2015
Uzbek officials: “Our prisons are most progressive, mass media are most democratic; no torture, because it is prohibited!”
Every five years starting in 1996 Uzbekistan delivers a report before UN Committee for Human Rights on the implementation ...
9 november 2015
Hodja Nasreddin: It is good that my donkey does not need petrol!
In Uzbekistan petrol shortage has been increasing year by year. Pictures of long queues at petrol stations appeared on ...
30 september 2015
You are not permitted to enter Tashkent
The Uzbek government systematically denies citizens’ freedom of movement both within the country and abroad. Domestically, Uzbekistan still has ...