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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
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21 july 2016
Uzbeks Subjected to Forced-Labor Wonder if the Worms are Luckier
As temperatures push 100 degrees F (44 C), teachers, doctors, and nurses are working in the cotton fields of ...
13 september 2017
“I will voluntarily go to pick cotton”
A distinctive feature of the cotton season in 2017 is the full-scale requirement for written confirmation of “voluntary participation ...
6 september 2016
I won’t “cast him off” whatever happens. He is the irreplaceable one.
In one of his interviews deceased President Karimov was truly surprised that Uzbek citizens are leaving to Russia chasing ...
6 january 2016
Throne of president Karimov
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